We have the responsibility to teach them how literary language is working, from simple literary examples, building onward to more complex texts. We have to teach them about what figurative language is, how it determines or opens semantic conditions; we have to teach them about accretion and resonance developing over time across sentences, paragraphs, pages. … More Une amie a dit
It is of course better than any of the alleged poems in that book I reviewed, but beyond that is it worthwhile to persons besides myself, je vous le demande. Heaven How many roads lead to Heaven? If you trip on the bridge, do you fall? Had some event marked her, did a single moment … More Revised
Real Love, from Black Messiah. That is new and you should really listen to the clip. There’s Voodoo, and you can listen to it all– and other albums, but I really think this Black Messiah would be the thing to have as you drove through the city, for instance. Axé.
Student: This book is something you administer, not something you learn from. When I am working with it and its companion website I am in a frenzy trying to make sure I know where I am and that I am matching the right thing to the right thing. I am completing an exercise and learning … More Some interlaced conversations today
Kristeva has that famous title Desire in Language but what about joy in language? Arguedas referred to himself as a “demonio feliz” speaking in Quechua and Castilian. Vallejo is a similarly happy demon, surfing seas of metaphor, watching the dance of words. Logopoeia. This is fun to say but one cannot say it without looking … More Ce matin
The days are bright. I do not remember winter light being so bright here and pale, or there being as much sun. It is colder now for longer, as well. I woke up this morning thinking that I would like to understand Adorno, now because he and Horkheimer (1972) say that “homeland is the state … More Lundi encore
We must study this. Axé.
I am reading Francisco Goldman, The Interior Circuit; Pedro Granados, Soledad impura, and C. D. Wright, One Big Self: An Investigation. I do not have Deborah Luster’s book of photographs that accompanies this last, but you can look at part of it here, and part of it here. I am promoting Powell’s Books to get us … More And… reading for pleasure Sunday
It is easily possible to live yet better. To do so, one must remember not to torture oneself (I am so trained to that that I do it automatically unless I remind myself that I can be kinder, as I have in fact ben in some eras). One must also remember that one has rights … More Pour méditer cette semaine
This might turn out to be a Hollywood-style film, but one must see it for the soundtrack at least. I think I will show it at the beginning of my Colonial class in the fall, and then use the semester to show how the continent got to that point. Axé.
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