I saw this poem in The Nation and was impressed. This is the author and he’s not even from abroad, I thought he would be some fancy person from abroad but he’s U.S. and younger. I learned in that issue about an Egyptian poet, Iman Mersal. In the end that is why I still subscribe … More Hanif Abudurraquib
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T. S. Eliot, in The Atlantic, 1954. I got it from SMT. Axé.
…diálogo e diferença na cultura brasileira. It’s Haroldo de Campos and it was originally published in the Boletim Bibiliográfico, I think of Mario de Andrade vol. 44 n. 1/4 S. Paul, Jan.-Dez. 1983. 106-27. It is a classic article and I am recycling my photocopy, nostalgic though that is. I’m sure I can find it … More Haroldo de Campos: Da razão antropofágica
This is a good translation. Mine had coffee spilled on it or something, and got warped, and I have just recycled it. But I might reacquire it. Axé.
I have a photocopy of this book and it has always been something I should seriously read. It still is, even though it is old now. I forget that I have it because it is a photocopy. I’m going to get rid of the photocopy and probably buy the book, even though I do not … More Colonial Desire
Read it. http://criticalflame.org/garip-a-turkish-poetry-manifesto-1941/ Axé. P. S. I got this from Neil P. and he pointed out this excerpt: “The new aesthetics will only be achieved with new ways and vehicles. There is nothing new or artistic in squeezing certain ideologies into already accepted forms. The structures should be changed completely. In order to get away … More A Turkish poetry manifesto, 1941
The photocopy I am recycling today is of this book. I kept it for years because there was a time where it was the only text I knew of that would said: “The subaltern needs expressive subjectivity, but radical Western intellectuals think expressive subjectivity is conservative / oppressive, and so on.” THERE IS A PROBLEM … More Selected Subaltern Studies
In the course I am calling my “Bolshevik mega-class” we are reading Susan Sontag, “Against Interpretation.” This is good for Vallejo, and for my alleged paper that criticizes the biographical interpretations of him. Lorca, Borges, Vallejo, there is so much to work on. Axé.
This is an exact description of what happened to me with my ill-fated Vallejo book. Its ill fate killed me and it took me a long time — seven years, I believe — to understand. If I had understood it then I could have worked on or with the situation. But I did not understand … More Pérez Firmat
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