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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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30 nov 2009

What did Bach call his own style of music? How about Mozart? They didn't think of themselves as "baroque" and "classica...

27 nov 2009

Today's SMT is to let your writing neuroses work for you instead of against you. Imagine if you were shadowed by an obnoxious person wh...

24 nov 2009

Jazz is not "America's classical music." Just think about it a moment. It's kind of like the "champaign of beers...

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23 nov 2009

As a teenager I suffered from rather serious "ear worm," but it tended to be lines of poetry that got stuck in my head rather than...

Study Hacks is a good blog about the work part of academic work, whether it be an undergraduate trying to complete a degree or a faculty m...

Another review of the Lorca book is up.

As you age you lose some mental quickness, sheer speed. You can also become less open to new possibilities, more set in your intellectual h...

Here's a radical idea. Have only one project at a time. (On the website of my former colleague I notice there are about 5 projects s/h...

I've been thinking a bit about academic work and the question of efficiency. There are two views that are somewhat misguided, in my vie...

20 nov 2009

Dear students: I am not smarter than you. True, I have read more books, accumulated more cultural capital. My thought is more nuanced and ...

Here's an example I like to use. Vallejo, like Quevedo, uses a lot of word play. The phrase "proso estos versos" plays on th...

Constraint in Translation An original text might be subjected to certain constraints. Rhyme schemes, metrical rules, Oulipean constraints, ...

18 nov 2009

What about a theory of poetic translation that was tropological, that aimed for the preservation of every antithesis, metonymy, litotes, cat...

I've always wanted to do a history of the Spanish lyric course, beginning with medieval cancioneros and romanceros, going through Garcil...

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