Fíjense en lo que dice Ricardo Palma: “The principal cause of the great defeat is that the majority of Peru is composed of that wretched and degraded race that we once attempted to dignify and ennoble. The Indian lacks patriotic sense; he is born enemy of the white and of the man of the coast. … More Facebook is refusing to post
Now there is a new Vallejo blog. And a book I did not know of, Pedro Granados, Poéticas y utopías en la poesía de César Vallejo [PhD Thesis, Boston University, 2003] (Lima: PUCP Fondo editorial, 2004). Todo esto investigaremos. #OccupyHE. Axé.
Hattie has shown me that you can see video from the cockpit of flights landing, and I have learned I would like to be a pilot. Here is video of the two most fascinating landings I have made, in Pasto, Colombia, and La Paz, Bolivia. The altitude of this last airport is over 13,000 feet. There … More Aterrizaje en Pasto
I actually received this. “Where was I when two of the greatest Leos in the history of Leos battled it out in Freetown for the month of August?” That’s what you’ll ask yourself as you toss in bed 2 weeks from now, the anxiety and butt-hurt creeping in. Don’t let this happen. Be there. We … More A Dadaist party invitation
Afro-Hispanic Review Luso-Brazilian Review Raritan …and there are more, and there are books I would like to buy. Alternatively, the library could have holdings. But I cannot do it all, as we must also pay for travel to conferences. I used to Do It All, Anyway, but that ended in debt. And this is the … More Journals I would like to subscribe to
El Sur from Alejandro Abramovich. Axé.
I have written an essay for my MOOC that is half the maximum length and that took no thought or deep reading. This is because I am not taking the MOOC terribly seriously, yet I want to experience it. I am working for a C. Therefore I should not be posting the piece, but I … More Sentences
Unbelievably, I now have an official creative writing student and I am starting to compile a list of readings, in an attempt to begin answering the question, who and what taught me to write my sentences? Essay, chronicle, memoir ♦ Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Facundo ♦ Joan Didion ♦ Mariano José de Larra ♦ Michel de Montaigne, … More Liste de lectures … en progrès … and constantly updating
…it is going to start and we will meet many more students resembling our former students, people who may or may not use their degrees directly in their future jobs but who will: ♦ discover they can work white collar ♦ discover that they enjoy the humanities ♦ learn that if they go down to … More School
Here is something about academic advice that I would rather write about over here, since I am supposed to write an alternative advice book one day. What is one advising on? I seek advice on how to remain myself in atmospheres which actively militate against it. How to remember it is actually good to have an … More Une de mes belles perceptions
