Category Archives: poetry
Essentialist Explanations, 13th edition
English is essentially a language in which up has forty-seven dictionary definitions, but antidisestablishmentarianism is considered a “hard word.” –John M. Ford Essentialist Explanations comprises a list of 901 “essentialist explanations” of the form “Language X is essentially language Y … more…
Nor shall my sword sleep at my side (just a day late)
It didn’t occur to me until today, the morning after William Blake’s 250th anniversary, to post, by way of celebration, Mark Stewart’s version of Jerusalem* with the Maffia, now 25-years-old itself, and sounding, if anything, more contemporary than it did … more…
Alan Moore: And How Are You Tonight, Mr Wilson?
Alan Moore pays tribute to Robert Anton Wilson at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, back in March. Beautiful. It reminds me of Kesey’s lovely epitaph for Neal Cassady, The Day After Superman Died, written for Esquire, later published in a rare … more…
links for 2007-08-19: Dilbert, Silliman
Dilbert: Coffee Swilling Beaver “I hired a coffee-swilling beaver to show you how to work faster” (tags: dilbert coffee-swilling-beaver humour comics) Silliman’s Blog much Beat-related linkage (tags: kerouac on-the-road literature creeley dylan)
Tuli Kupferberg reads from Snow Job
Shhh… you’ll wake the audience.
Raworth, Rusk, Dorn
Tom Raworth makes an appeal (NOTES » Thirty Years Ago) to conserve photographic records of figures of cultural significance on the West Coast in the mid 70s. Photographer Rob Rusk has fallen on hard times, his pictures out of circulation … more…
links for 2007-01-15: William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams MP3s of 1940s readings (tags: audio poetry williamcarloswilliams)
links for 2007-01-12: Borges audio
Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse Audio CD six excerpts of Borges’ lectures at Harvard, 1967 (tags: borges mp3 lectures writing)
Dish with epigraphic decoration
Musée du Louvre This dish is one of the finest examples of the group of objects with essentially epigraphic decoration, produced from the tenth century onward in western Iran. The text is an adage: “Science (or magnanimity) are bitter-tasting at … more…
links for 2006-12-10: Schama on Waits
One from the heart | Rock | Guardian Unlimited Music Simon Schama eulogises Tom Waits (tags: Tom-Waits, Simon-Schama, music, poetry)