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Swindle: A Daily Aggregator of Contemporary Poetry
Pulling new poems from various sources every day. Needs RSS!
SAMPLE REALITY · David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, and the Littlest Literary Hoax
Fascinating... invocations of Sokal aren't productive... this is a whole different thing
Baron Wormser.com
Archive of Wormser's poetry, essays, talks, links to books, etc. Good stuff.
The POINT Magazine: DEATH IS NOT THE END: By Jon Baskin
Insightul... "With the benefit of time, it will be recognized that Wallace had less in common with Eggers and Franzen than he did with Dostoevsky and Joyce. Against what he believed to be the outmoded theoretical commitments of his predecessors and contemporaries, he labored to return literary fiction to the deep problems of subjective experience. For those of us who came of age in the 1990s, his fiction was a relief and a gift. Confused, alienated and inauthentic though it might be, subjective consciousness still existed—and it was still the business of the novelist to describe it."
Taking poetry to heart
OK, I'll admit I rather liked the idea of taking poems into my mind as one might pluck apples from a tree, a sort of intellectual kleptomania. And because it was conceived of as a race, I guess there was also a tinge of macho competitiveness. And yes, I suppose it did cross my mind that reciting poetry would be a sly way to seduce the ladies.
But those shady motives feel rather redundant now. Six months ago a friend and I drew up a list of our favourite poems and having been going strong ever since. I am half way through, but I'm no longer doing this simply because I want to reach the end point. It's been all about falling in love with poetry again, and discovering it as if for the first time.
Beauty and Desecration by Roger Scruton, City Journal Spring 2009
"We must rescue art from the modern intoxication with ugliness." Amen
THE MARTIN PAPERS: MY LIFE WITH MARTIN AMIS | More Intelligent Life
Interesting pictures (literally and figuratively) of a young Martin Amis... an amazing author despite the advantages and pedigree...
Slaughterhouse
Bacon, who died in 1992 at the age of eighty-two, may well be the greatest exemplar of a wrongheaded tradition that we have ever seen. He had a knack for adapting all the wrong elements from all the right artists. He zeroed in on those moments when Van Gogh and Picasso were pushing their glorious anarchic energy to the brink of incoherence. This would have been fine, except that Bacon willfully ignored their ordering intelligence, preferring to sacrifice pictorial sensibility to literary sensationalism. What Bacon produced are not paintings, at least not satisfying ones. They are little more than rectangles of canvas inscribed with noirish graffiti: angst for dummies. Bacon turned his clever little quotations from the masters, old or modern, into the twentieth century's most august visual claptrap
Piccadilly Journals Quality Notebooks Fine Writing
Some interesting notebooks to be had here...
Power Moby-Dick, the Online Annotation — Chapter 1
Interesting project in online annotation. It's getting to be time to read Moby Dick again. via @jstein
The Influence of Anxiety
Working on This Is Water was emotionally exhausting. By this point he had ceased being David Foster Wallace, author, and had become Dave, a dear acquaintance whom I missed dreadfully. Spending so much time ruminating on the words that failed to save him was a bit much. Reading his sagacious words about mindfulness and kindness were a continuous reminder of what the world lost.
Lawrence Lessig: The Solipsist and the Internet (a Review of Helprin's Digital Barbarism)
Lawrence Lessig rightly excoriates Helprin's new book on copyright. "Mark Helprin has demonstrated no understanding in this book. And between a copyright system that fails to give royalties to grandchildren, and a culture of publishing that spreads the sort of ignorant raving that this book is, I should think we should be more concerned about the latter rather than the former."
PoemTalk
a podcast series featuring contemporary and experimental poetry. Leaning away from mainstream
DC's: Kevin Killian presents ... Jack Spicer (1925-1965)
This is a great piece on Jack Spicer, including some interesting info on his connection to Philip K. Dick. Well worth a few minutes of your time!
sp!ked review of books | It’s time to move beyond the nature/nurture divide
Sadly, since The Nurture Assumption was first published 10 years ago, the cultural preoccupation with protecting children from any possible negative messages has extended far beyond the confines of the home to include what goes on in the classroom and the school playground, too.
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