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Conceptualizing "Self-Portrait as an Atlas"
I have finally (though I returned from my travels across America in August) started to conceptualize “Self-Portrait as an Atlas.” I began working on the book back in 1998 when I was still completing my undergraduate work at the University of Alabama. I was taking a class taught by Bruce Smith, the author of Mercy Seat and Songs for Two Voices. ( Read more... ) -
Incompetent Bosses
I found this article on AOL today. . .how apropos. Is it possible to have one manager that embodies ALL these qualities? I think I have one ( Read more... ) -
Mad Scientist
Today at lunch, I saw this man with those thick, black-rimmed mad scientist glasses on. . .and all I could think about was yanking off those glasses and making out with him.
That's normal. . .right? -
Two Travelers to a River
Two Travelers to a River ( Read more... ) -
First Attempt, as yet untitled:
A shadow, the length of quiet:
nightfall on Ravensbruck
the gash of dawn
this halved shell:
brutal grooves
percussive hooves
of a photograph
The halfshell of a mother's loud arm
soothing her child
a hammering of bullets
so many birch trees
naked on a dead hill
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Writing Silence
Geez is it freezing in here! I can't concentrate when my hands are cold. . . not on work anyway. Instead, after updating a review on Paul Celan's Collected Works, I started thinking about my current assignment for Truong Tran's poetry workshop. He suggested that I write into my pieces on Schumann a dark silence. Since yesterday, I have been ( Read more... ) -
Reflections
So, it's a little late to be posting reviews of 2008, but I've been thinking through what I wanted to say for a couple of weeks now, so I guess that counts. 2007 was a really, really interesting and seemingly crappy year for me, so my only hope was that 2008 would be better. I feel that it lived up to that one, small expectation. In 2006, I began ( Read more... ) -
Hit and Run
So, kind of a crazy day. Started out normal. On Sundays, Tim works, but I'm off. I had a busy day planned. Even when I'm off work, there's so much studying to be done, it's hard to get my arms around it. I had a project due today by midnight, so I needed to go to the library at Mills to look at copies of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern in the special ( Read more... ) -
Found
Article in the local free paper "East Bay Express" Volume 30, Issue 42 July 23-29, 2008 ( Read more... )