Santa Cruz, Calif.
20/07/2016
You lusciously unreconstructed tacky beach town delicious summer Axé.
Category: Poetry
I hate composting (original text)
19/07/2016
Another thing I hate is composting. It is one thing to do it outside but I hate kitchens with a nasty tub of compost by the sink and another nasty fermenting compost pail. People wonder why I do not cook and eat out but it is because I do not like the smell of this … More I hate composting (original text)
Poetics
15/07/2016
This is Marjorie Perloff’s very useful website and we should all use it for reference. Axé.
Yves Bonnefoy
14/07/2016
There is something at once very American and very French about this poem. (The translation is by Hoyt Rogers.) Like Emerson, Dickinson, and Frost, Bonnefoy subjects the forest to close, reverential observation, and reveals in it an earthly Eden. Yet there is also, in these lines, a sense that the vision is illusory, the melting … More Yves Bonnefoy
That Vallejo panel
05/07/2016
I must compose my to-do list: the Service Learning project, the Vallejo panel, the Curriculum and Instruction article, the Houston paper and its submission somewhere, and the Vallejo paper … not to mention the prison presentation. I also have the prize submission, the archival research, and the bureaucratic document on my own behalf. For Vallejo, … More That Vallejo panel
The author as gesture, again
04/07/2016
I do not know that I understand this text, yet, well enough to explain it, but I do remember writing a paper in graduate school entitled “Poetry as gesture in the criticism of Baudelaire.” I might be able to find this paper again but it had ideas in it including the poem as event (something … More The author as gesture, again
Agamben or the author as gesture
29/06/2016
Now I need Agamben for two different projects so I have no choice but to study. Here, the author is gesture. Axé.
Viaje hacia la noche
24/06/2016
This is an interesting video on a surrealist poet, that I still have to watch. Viaje Hacia la Noche from Realidad Visual on Vimeo. Moro. Axé.
For this prize I need
22/06/2016
1. The application coversheet, with all items completed: A one- to two-page, single-spaced statement outlining the work and describing its importance. A biography and bibliography of the author, including information on translations of his or her work into other languages. A CV of the translator, no longer than three pages. If the book is not … More For this prize I need
Books on imperial Spain, and other books
20/06/2016
I have so many books to read but I always want others. If there were bookstores I would walk to them and browse, and if the libraries had budgets I could peruse new acquisitions. The desired books of the day are Hugh Thomas, World without end: Spain, Philip II, and the first global empire and … More Books on imperial Spain, and other books
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