[…] it is not possible to get outside the age you are in to judge it exactly. Indeed it is as dangerous to try to get outside of anything as large as an age as it would be to engorge a donkey. Witness the many who in the attempt have suffered a dilation from which [...]
In other words, sunset drugstore thundershower moustache.
A beautiful day along the border.
I think Cortázar had the last word on the too-many-writers, not-enough-readers problem over forty years ago: As the scribes will persist, the few readers there are in the world are going to have to change their roles and become scribes themselves. More and more countries will be made up of scribes, and more and more [...]
Dear poets, a favor: I’ve had this sudden realization that my education in, and familiarity with, twentieth-century poetry comes to an abrupt halt somewhere around Eliot and Stein, leapfrogs over World War II (using some kind of Modern-Postmodern, Joyce-Beckett sinew), and picks up again somewhere around the Beats and the New York School, with writers [...]
Dirty floors, scrap metal containers, keys in the pavement, etc.
Woman #1: Did you let your boobs out? Woman #2: [muffled response] Woman #1: Then you did good!
Slowly adding older, unpublished articles from journalism classes (see categories in sidebar, right). (Dates and times of postings are retroactive to when the pieces were written.)
Okay. Think that’s done it. Finally figured out a nav bar (above) and a sidebar (right), thanks to this person; pretty sure these elements are consistent across all pages; brought back a server-side include or two, plus naked old guy loitering in the background (left); am very, very glad I’m using MovableType now; figured out [...]
There’s little an editor could do, presumably, to prevent this, but it seems nonetheless lousy timing to run an ouvre-trashing review of a poet’s work approximately the same week that the guy’s getting married.
Nominated as a candidate for Best New American Voices 2007.
Albee Foundation residency this summer. Just found out.