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Of interest

17/07/2018

Diglossia: Vallejo and Verlaine Ballón Aguirre’s curious text Axé.

This was a poem I wrote in 1981, that I liked then and still do, but that needs context to be comprehensible. At what point do poems expire, speaking only to their own age? At what point does a text that interests its writer become interesting to another? I never thought of this level of … More Sobre la poesía

Presses

10/07/2018

Two Lines. Print journal, online features, and also books. Center for the Art of Translation. Study this journal; here are submission instructions. Tripwire. Experimental. They take translations but not poems originally written in English. Verify? Split Lip. You can submit one poem only. This is fun, if you only have one good one. Siete vientos, … More Presses

Notes on that poem

10/07/2018

…that I spent days translating when I should have been doing any number of things. The post-human. The critique of nationalist literary histories. The attempt to locate origins in what has been lost. The fact that that is the game nationalist literary histories play, appropriating those origins for the national project. We are taught to … More Notes on that poem

Fernando de Herrera, Soneto X

04/07/2018

Roxo sol, que con hacha luminosa coloras el purpúreo y alto cielo, ¿hallaste tal belleza en todo el suelo, qu’ iguale a mi serena Luz dichosa? Aura suäve, blanda y amorosa, que nos halagas con tu fresco buelo; cuando se cubre del dorado velo mi Luz, ¿tocaste trença más hermosa? Luna, onor de la noche, … More Fernando de Herrera, Soneto X

More for “Language and the entrepreneurial university”

03/07/2018

Last year, the state moved for dismissal, arguing that the 14th Amendment contains no reference to literacy. Then, last week, U.S. District Judge Stephen Murphy III agreed with the state. Literacy is important, the judge noted. But students enjoy no right to access to being taught literacy. All the state has to do is make … More More for “Language and the entrepreneurial university”

A brief and subjective review of Charlottesville, Virginia

22/06/2018

I should have driven further but traffic was thick and it is raining, so I have stopped in Charlottesville. I started out in northern Maryland, driving to Washington, DC where I parked off the national mall and went to the Cézanne exhibit at the National Gallery, which is worthwhile. The gift shop at the National … More A brief and subjective review of Charlottesville, Virginia

Remnants of that article draft

16/06/2018

***Alternatives to the current university: Edu-factory, more. ***Bosquet: adjunct women wildcatting will be what saves us. Is this an adequate hope? Can we all get together to reeducate the public / rebuild the idea of the public and the public good? ***Asking for accountability from administratons: the LARB article. ***AAUP needs much closer connections regional/national, … More Remnants of that article draft

La liste

13/06/2018

These are some things I may do to expand my health program: Magic 10 yoga poses. Givamukti yoga. Tumeric with black pepper. Reduce caffeine. Acupuncture. Swimming, push-ups, backbends, locust pose, squats. Axé.