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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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24 abr 2007

In Jasper Johns, the hand is a kind of voice . [David Shapiro] And in David Shapiro, the eye is a kind of ear. There's a way of writi...

Not a course on prosody, but a course on everything that you would have to know to begin to make prosody meaningful in the first place...

Robert Pinsky. Like Altoids, but "curiously bland" instead of "curiously strong." Rooting poetry in oral performance i...

23 abr 2007

I am developing a course for when I come back, a graduate seminar called "Ritmo, cante, voz." It's basically my "song st...

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19 abr 2007

I never realized Rollins had a quartet for a short period in 1963 with Don Cherry, Henry Grimes, and Billy Higgins--a pianoless group simila...

There's a classic French movie with a scene in a classroom where a teenage kid reads aloud--magnificently--a passage from Racine. For t...

17 abr 2007

Pulitzer for Ornette!

13 abr 2007

I read Vonnegut pretty intensely from age 12 to 15 or 16, and not much after that. He was one of my first literary obsessions, along with C...

11 abr 2007

I downloaded some Leonard Cohen and Joan Baez for the folklore class. Versions of Lorca. Cohen had quiet a hit with Lorca "Pequeño va...

10 abr 2007

I'm getting rid of my links to other blogs. Many were out of date and didn't reflect what I was actually reading. I'll gradual...

What would happen to my song studies field in the real world of academic institutions? The linguists would view the true subject here as t...

9 abr 2007

The problem of Silliman's Blog is not the insistence on the decrepitude of the school of quietude, but a kind of critical lassitude that...

5 abr 2007

I've resolved the problem of translation. It's about time someone did. Here's my solution. Regard translation as a perfectly ...

4 abr 2007

Beckett, Kafka, Lorca. They are like stencils or cut-outs, huge images of themselves that impede any new perception of them.

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