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
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
…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
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
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”
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
***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
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.
Union busting is democracy busting. Inverted totalitarianism: contexts of the entrepreneurial university. Nair on going actually radical. Axé.
I am so tired of having to psychoanalyze myself and also of finding that I keep coming to the same conclusions yet do not progress, or progress so slowly. In any case my insight, new for today is that a great part of my struggle here has to do with not having come here by my … More Insight du jour — once again
