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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
And let me tell you, it’s taken a couple days. I finished up The Silver Chair, yet another Chronicle of Narnia that involves, blessedly, no giant battles. Ole Clive Staples is really pulling through for me, here. Unfortunately, all I have left to read is The Last Battle, which I think is going [...]
Teaching Fellows, though I promised I wasn’t going to bitch about it–well, I have to take a minute just to say that I am overworked and frustrated. Let’s just take a moment to consider the fact that I–Sarah the crazy workhorse–am overworked. On the upside, I am one step closer to inculcating New [...]
Anne Carson has read more than I have. Anne Carson is much smarter than I am.
I do think those statements are true–about her being smarter and more well read–but I also think they’re kind of bullshit excuses that everyone dips into on occasion when reading and dishing Ms. Carson. Everyone loves “The Glass [...]
Two Saturdays ago was the Race and Poetry Symposium at Sarah Lawrence, put together by Jeff McDaniel (who has become something of a hero of my over the last 3 years or so) and Tina Chang (who I don’t know at all, but seems very cool). Basically (and I haven’t been to a [...]
I’ve been reading and hearing a lot–a surprisingly big lot given that I’m not really seeking it out–about copyright and how it’s fussing up appropriation and collage in artists’ creation of art–you know, how our modern laws are making art harder to make or at least more fraught with threat of legal action. [...]
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