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"The very existence of poetry should make us laugh. What is it all about? What is it for?"
--Kenneth Koch

“El subtítulo ‘Modelo para armar’ podría llevar a creer que las diferentes partes del relato, separadas por blancos, se proponen como piezas permutables.”

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31 oct 2006

The Valve , a critique. I like the idea behind the Valve and I value the contributions of at least five of the contributors: Amardeep Sing...

I might have mentioned my method for reading Clark Coolidge. Going through Solution Passage , for example, I mark poems I like with a check...

Mayhew's Mood I am brilliant but not too smart about things I ought to be smart about-- that argument overheard in 1975-- was I part ...

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29 oct 2006

What if writing poetry were like writing in French? That is, what if it were simply a matter of learning a "poetic language," tha...

28 oct 2006

I am a bad professor. I don't like telling people what to do. My impulse is to say: "Give me your best." Don't give me...

26 oct 2006

Avant-garde translation theory basically argues for the foregrounding of translation. It's a kind of Russian formalist idea of the ...

There is one more attack on Drew Gardner's "Chicks Dig War" referenced here at Elsewhere . Inspired by this kind of survey, I...

25 oct 2006

A speaker observes an alienated couple as they dourly squirt Windex at each other's faces from opposite sides of a pane they're cle...

It seems to me that "foriegnizing" translation also serves a "domesticating" agenda, albeit a different one from an unab...

24 oct 2006

While I was at a party hosted by Judy Roitman and Stan Lombardo, featuring special guest appearances by Ken Irby, Cyrus Console, Jim McCrary...

My favorite rhythms are, I think The walking bass--four quarternotes evenly accented. What could be more pure than that? Spanish endecasí...

I always was fascinated by the elegiac couplet. It's a line of dactylic hexamater BAM ba ba BAM ba ba BAM ba ba BAM ba ba BAM ba ba BAM...

The life-blood of rhymed translation is this, that a good poem shall not be turned into a bad one. The only true motive for putting poetry i...

19 oct 2006

Cavalcanti: Una figura de la donna mia S'adora, Guido, a San Michele in Orto, Che di bella semblanza, onesta e pia, De' peccatori è...

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