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Some wonderful books I've read in recent months
Amy Hempel, Collected Stories
Laura Jensen, Bad Boats(an extraordinary first book) and Memory
Kathleen Pierce, The Ardors (strange and surprising at every turn -- can't believe I'd never heard of Pierce until this past fall)
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Readings 2009
Mary Szybist and Christina Davis - Thursday, 26 February 2009
D.A. Powell - Saturday, 21 March 2009
Brigit Pegeen Kelly and J.D. McClatchy - Thursday, 2 April 2009
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Gob: My God. What is this feeling ( Read more... ) -
not so white as, but white as can be
re-discovering (encountering?) WCW -- this poem offers so many pleasures I'm surprised that I ever forgot about it.
Queen Anne's Lace
HER body is not so white as
anemone petals nor so smooth--nor
so remote a thing. It is a field
of the wild carrot taking
the field by force; the grass
does not raise above it.
Here is no question of whiteness,
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qui donne du plaisir en a
All day I did the work I love, spent the day in my mind -- and emerged immeasurably sadder. I'm not sure why. Or how else to explain it ( Read more... ) -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2002/nov/30/art.artsfeatures
One thing about Rego: she never explains. She dislikes theory, maintains she doesn't understand it. Some years ago, an eminent feminist art critic asked her about the presence of a figure in one of her pictures. "It's there because it looks right," Rego replied. "And she told me off. She told me I should take responsibility for what I do. Well, I ( Read more... ) -
"She knows how to hang puppies, that Emily."
I went to a lovely reading tonight by Brigit Pegeen Kelly. & her person seemed so much the speaker of her poems -- modest, lovingly attentive to the world, conciliatory. She read, interspersed among her own work, poems by Wallace Stevens, János Pilinszky ("Fable" -- the simplicity and quiet poignancy of which still stuns me), Laura Riding ("The ( Read more... ) -
found
A passage from Joe Eck's ELEMENTS OF GARDEN DESIGN:
"Every esthetic decision is in part the product of influence. We see gardens we have liked and others we have not; we have noted effects that please us and others that seemed contrived. All that history of looking and judging, of liking and resisting, is what we bring to the making of a garden. The ( Read more... ) -
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag --
Interviewer: What message, if any, do you have for the several thousand people who are going to graduate this year with MFAs?
Bob Hicok: Remember that, when I say I want my root beer without ice, I mean it.