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Kenneth Koch: The Poem Writes Itself [by David M. Katz]
from David M. Katz's blog, we lift this tribute to Kenneth Koch: <<<Below I offer to readers of this blog a pre-New Year’s gift in the form of “You Want a Social Life, with…
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Cathy Eisenhower: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________ Things to Do in a Post-Doug Lang DC Be sad. Be very, very sad. Worry about Sandra, Phyllis,…
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Santé, Bonheur! Joy! Imagination! Discernment! Thoughts on some upcoming dance and performance [By Tracy Danison]
Entanglement: Jann Gallois and Rafael Smadja perform Gallois’ “Compact”. Photo©Cie Burnout Happy 2023. Best wishes. For this year, I propose taking it as it comes and, for what’s left, letting the heart decide. This…
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Claude Rawson on Stanley Fish, Derrida, the Rise and Ruin of Critical Theory (1991)
The more things change, the more they stay the same — or get worse.From "Old Literature and Its Enemies" by Claude Rawson, London Review of Books, 25 April 1991. The identification of theory with…
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In Absence—This Unknowing [by Bianca Stone]
When you leave, facelessold lover, elementthat I have tried for so longto explain—I will besuspended betweentwo large stonesfor a momentthinking you were goodbefore I am revived.I will be laundrythat has gotten loosefrom the line.…
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Academic Graffiti [by W. H. Auden]
Auden collected his clerihews under the title Academic Graffiti (1952, 1970). Here are several of my favorites from the Auden oeuvre: When Karl MarxFound the phrase 'financial sharks,'He sang a Te DeumIn the British Museum. *…
