a while ago, anny ballardini sent a questionaire to a number of people who blog around (?) poetry … & i was happy to be one among them … this was for the final project of a course she’s been taking … i quickly typed out some response and sent it back …
yesterday she sent [...]
Blogs, Wikis, and Other Online Paraphernalia
There’s this thing called Web 2.0. It means that the old web (1.0, or the “Read Only Web”) is now the “Read/Write Web.” It means that the kind of web-publishing that used to require some fairly complex coding skills (like knowing html) now only requires an ability to point and [...]
Olbermann: Lessons from the Vietnam War - Countdown with Keith Olbermann - MSNBC.com.
so here’s pynchon’s new one in the mail today … reminds me to list for no reason all the big books i’m holding back … for lack of time …
1) Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon
2) The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia - Michael Gray
3) The Complete Essays of Montaigne - Donald M. Frame
4) William James: In [...]
that i might list all the people, events, and things in my life for which i am thankful comes to me … but i’m feeling as usual too lazy for that … so let me put it this way: if you & i have ever crossed paths … if we’ve ever had positive or even [...]
from The Dictionary of Philosophy … Pan-entheism: (Gr. pan, all; en, in, theos, god) The term for
the view that God interpenetrates everything without cancelling the
relative independent existence of the world of entities, moreover,
while God is immanent, this immanence is not absolute (as in
pantheism), God is more than the world, transcendent, in the sense that
though the [...]
some platitudes around psalm 10 … i don’t like my tone in some spots … “we” in places sound royal and officious … it’s actually tremulous … i’m not preaching … i’m muttering … banalities but … just talking to myself …
bold is the nab, italic beneath is the kjv …
Why, LORD, do you stand [...]
listening to nick piombino’s recent bowery club reading … i remember a small post i’d made on his fascinating Contradicta … i seek it out and just (to the split second) as it appears on my screen, i hear nick reading precisely those words … Listen to the whispers- all the bold voices have had [...]
The National Book Foundation presents the 2006 awards:
Young People’s Literature
M.T. Anderson
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party (Candlewick Press)
Poetry
Nathaniel Mackey
Splay Anthem (New Directions)
Nonfiction
Timothy Egan
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Houghton Mifflin)
Fiction
Richard Powers
The Echo Maker (Farrar, Straus & [...]
Just as sorrow covets compassion, vanity craves praise.
this bit of contradicta … contradictum? …. by nick piombino … touches on one moment near the end of my day … a moment that has colored … tinted … tainted my mood ever since …
i’m not going to tell the story … but there was a moment [...]
am just now taken by osvaldo golijov’s Ainadamar … was momentarily lost in some schoolwork … but then these voices … single and in chorus .. these guitars … and then the cat and i jump to the gunshot interlude and lament for the death of federico … one gunshot turns into two and multiples [...]
