Continued from here.
If Herbert is consciously involved in the play and pull of history and morality on an obviously macro level, Tomaž Šalamun engages with those things on the level of pure consciousness and his own awareness of the mind at work. Šalamun’s mind at work is the framework upon which his poetry is [...]
In his first daybook (ca. 1963-64), George Oppen wrote the following:
At least two kinds of devotion. The devotion to art, a sort of pragmatism of art which refuses to think anything that will not contribute to poetry. The other is a devotion which tries to makes poetry of what the mind, the free and operating [...]
My ass has been solidly roundhouse kicked by my job, but I am still up and fighting! There are only about five teaching weeks left. I can totally do that! Yeah!
Anyway, here’s a short list on what’s been going on in my intellectual life, which has been a little meager the past couple [...]
Teaching has done strange things to my intellect. Every once in awhile, I’m feeling my intellectual oats. I’m either dishing poetry with Jeff or Joel, or a student asks a question that I can knock out of the park. Just this past week, while teaching poetry (I don’t even want to talk about [...]
In a seasonally-unprecedented move (at least for a good long time), I have been digging me some songs–not compositions, not improvisations–actual, honest-to-goodness songs. Lots of good old Dischord bands, Smart Went Crazy, Lungfish, Shudder to Think as well as the golden age of mid-90s midwest indie rock–Rodan, June of 44, you know, that sort of [...]
“Michael Pollan, I really do enjoy that Michael Pollan teeters on the edge of being a douchebag for me. But he really hasn’t gone over the edge yet. For me.” -Jeff Boyle, on Michael Pollan’s shortlist of book and music recommendations for Borders. Admire it here. Truly, go look. It includes Walden and Neil Young’s [...]
Had I the chance to do it over again, I’m not sure I’d pick a modern noir as the first novel I taught to my students. Add a labyrinthine plot and dialogue written in reference-heavy urban dialect to a class of sometimes disgruntled, more likely than not learning disabled students and the result [...]
Hi,
This is my classroom library:
Notice how there aren’t very many books? Yeah, that remains a problem. So I signed up at Donors Choose and wrote a high-falutin’ blah blah blah that talks about Bell Hook, special education and canonical texts that are NOT what I need. Click on this fancy hyperlink to [...]
. . . poor, neglected life.
Things I’ve been digging:
1. Tuna Bouchons.
2. Veronica Mars is coming close to filling the void Buffy left in my heart. Godamn TV for always canceling good shows. RIP: Carnivale, Dead Like Me, Gilmore Girls. Updated: HOLY CRAP! Alyson Hannigan is Logan the jerkwad’s sister!
3. A Long way Gone, by Ishmael [...]
This is, of course, after a good hour plus of watching bonus features on dvds of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gilmore Girls. I just finished watching the last season of Buffy for the second time (i’m only three or four behind Sarah b), and the sixth season of GG is on loan, so i’m [...]
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