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"...purporting to be accessible, it is in fact haughty and condescending" 19 Jul 2013 | 05:54 am
Here is another excerpt from an interview with poet Geoffrey Hill at The Paris Review: HILL [...] I’ll go further and say that I think men and women who write poetry or write music or paint are fin...
Resisting tyrannical simplification 19 Jul 2013 | 05:43 am
The following comes from an excellent interview with the poet Geoffrey Hill at The Paris Review (the interview is from 2000; I recently came across the link via the apparently dormant Poetix): INTERV...
Noted: two passages 2 Jun 2013 | 08:57 pm
From the title story in Gary Lutz's Divorcer (2011) collection: She is still the same person, no doubt, only with a different person. That baleful preposition with: I keep tripping over it on my way ...
Alternative modernities or countermodernities 23 May 2013 | 07:00 am
This passage comes from Maia Ramnath's Decolonizing Anarchism: It bears mentioning that the words progressive and reactionary—in their most literal sense—entail relative direction, not necessarily po...
"Apologists of a larger insanity": Notes on Human Wishes/Enemy Combatant 30 Apr 2013 | 07:33 am
Last year, I read Edmond Caldwell's novel Human Wishes/Enemy Combatant. In fact, I read it twice. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and though I've already said so in a previous blog post, I've been wanting to...
"We'd now be living in a different world" 22 Apr 2013 | 05:44 am
Early in Karl Ove Knausgaard's A Time for Everything (my post about the book is here), but after we've learned of Antinous Bellori's encounter with the angels and briefly of his own investigations, is...
Notes on A Time for Everything 21 Apr 2013 | 09:13 am
Though I loved the first volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's novel/memoir My Struggle, I wasn't sure if I was going to read his novel, A Time for Everything (translated from the Norwegian by James Anderso...
Noted: Karl Ove Knausgaard 13 Apr 2013 | 07:35 am
This passage comes from volume one of Karl Ove Knausgaard's novel/memoir, My Struggle (translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett): Looking back on this, it is striking how she, scarcely two years...
Noted: Karl Ove Knausgaard 9 Apr 2013 | 01:23 am
In Karl Ove Knausgaard's remarkable novel, A Time For Everything (translated from the Norwegian by James Anderson), this passage comes from the novella-length section about Noah and the flood: Milka ...
On grief and Led Zeppelin 27 Mar 2013 | 05:59 am
In January, I alluded to the fact that we were in the middle of a period of grief. The fact is, in late December, our unborn baby, due this Spring, died. Forgive me for the bluntness of this statement...
