Or just wailing (I deleted the yawning). During an economic crisis one should read Blake and Rimbaud. And Stan Apps. And Linh Dinh if you can take it. It reads more bleak than Blake. Or Dr. Joseph Goebbels. By W.D. Snodgrass, who just passed away (why is so much of these poetics about poets... »
Archive for January, 2009
The diarrhetic economy
Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Everything about 2008 is going to sound like bankruptcy from now on – and right now it’s the only relevant thing to have happened. We only had a fourth left of the year when the economy turned bleedingly diarrhetic, after years of bad dietary choices, and now we’re permanently screwed. Yet it’s only three... »
Inger Christensen – 1935-2009
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
The danish poet Inger Christensen died last friday. She was a language-oriented poet with a humanist, lyricist streak – the same streak that continues to set most language-oriented poets in Scandinavia apart from their counterparts on the American continent, or even more south in Europe (think Mette Moestrup vs. Christian Bök – Ulf Karl... »
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