I am perfectly well, perhaps the best ever, but so introverted. It is possible that other people have these phases as well, when they are on sabbatical. I am not working on teaching, research or service, I am going through my books and creating a more amenable, and also more up to date work environment … More Le vendredi
I sold my earrings at the gold store to buy a silver ring in the market. I swapped that for old ink and a black notebook. This was before I forgot my pages on the seat of a train that was supposed to take me home. Whenever I arrived in a city, it seemed my … More The idea of houses
That is the title of this really interesting dissertation. Axé.
Who is speaking? Sense and self in Vallejo César Vallejo is considered one of the most important Latin American writers of the twentieth century. Yet with the complexity of his texts, his doubled, branching voices, and the controversies over his editions and manuscript traditions, he became both myth and interpretive battleground before most of his … More ACLA possibility
So: for that ALFS article, for which I have so much material and so much writing, but not a clear enough shape, I have these thoughts: 1. We have this situation: Les valeurs d’émancipation et d’égalité n’animent plus le système universitaire, qui est devenu un système de tri de la population. Durant mon enfance, l’éducation … More Not of general interest
Estos, Fabio, ¡ay dolor!, que ves ahora campos de soledad, mustio collado, fueron un tiempo Itálica famosa. Aquí de Cipión la vencedora colonia fue; por tierra derribado yace el temido honor de la espantosa muralla, y lastimosa reliquia es solamente de su invencible gente. Sólo quedan memorias funerales donde erraron ya sombras de alto ejemplo … More Estos, Fabio
While I was driving I thought of various poems I would have written when I stopped, except that I never got to stop early enough because of road construction and traffic. They were in a certain style and now the New Yorker has published one like them. I do not generally like the poems the … More Un poème
Here, reading: Jesús Sepúlveda. Chile. Festival Internacional de Poesía. Medellín. Axé.
We have three translations of Moro coming out in Asymptote in January, 2018. I wonder how actually good this may be. They are: – Oh fury the dawn emerges from your lips – The scandalous life of César Moro – Various lions lick the rugose surface of the equestrian turtle at twilight Axé.
I wish I could remember the name of the main manager of the bookstore, he was old and expansive and would sit in the office smoking cigars and doing paperwork, perhaps even reading manuscripts now that I think of it. Then there was the under-manager, M. Paul, a neoliberal type. Every morning after Giscard was … More Working at Librairie Gallimard
