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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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28 feb 2011

MayheW

Another curious fact about my last name is that it is the same upside down: Draw a capital M that looks a little bit like an upside-down W....

Digital Natives

A lot of the internet is text anyway, so you really have to be able to read text very, very well to be a good digital native. The digital en...

The Beaches of Northern California

I wrote about a fourth of my new book of poems The Beaches of Northern California last night. Then I realized that it was all a repetition ...

27 feb 2011

Mayhem

Since changing a single letter in my last name produces a word meaning "violent or damaging disorder; chaos" or "the crime of...

Blurbs

I have a new book that I came up with recently of imaginary blurbs for books of poetry. The only rule is that there will be as little self-...

25 feb 2011

Bullying

I feel less bullied by clear, concise confident prose than by abstract and indirectly didactic writing, writing that tries to extort sentime...

23 feb 2011

The Square

I'm writing this article about four authors and their interrelationships. I'm imagining it as a square with four sides and two diag...

22 feb 2011

Signposting Without Signposting

I'm writing my first article in which I systematically suppress all signposting, making the organization so tight that I never need to t...

Philosophy in Italian

I believe in reading in languages I don't fully understand. It stretches the brain a bit. Italian is perfect, since I understand it well...

21 feb 2011

Reading for Style and Structure

[x-posted at SMT ] Choose a scholarly article. The topic is not important. Examine the following elements: Introduction. How does the aut...

20 feb 2011

Questions from 2005

These questions had a run in 2005. You can look a the original question and several links to people answering them. Unfortunately some of...

Pictures from an Exhibition

I have a recording of Claudio Rodríguez reading his poetry. On one track, you can hear "Pictures from an Exhibition" playing fain...

18 feb 2011

The Twentieth Century

The 20th century really begins with the crisis of modernity, the absurdity of any kind of faith in modernity or progress. (Progress is a 19...

17 feb 2011

More Dogma

Dogma cannot be disputed; it admits no argument. If a dogma is replaced by a new, contradictory dogma, then there is no argument for the ch...

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