Book I’m most coveting this week

Oh, I saw it at BookCourt, my local book store on Court Street! It’s the 4 Volume set of The Complete Works of Samuel Beckett published by Grove and edited…

Talking about visual/concrete poetry

I wanted to respond to derek beaulieu’s winnipeg suite (discussed earlier), without too much analysis, primarily because the people whom I dream of encountering poetry are people who don’t necessarily…

Overheard Dialogue of the Week

Why are some wars good? Because they’re for the right reasons. That one was for the right reasons. This one isn’t. What is this one for? This one is because…

Thoughts on Writing: Nicole Brossard

I write to make a statement of presence in language. In order for the alive to win out.Writing can be done only in a body to body encounter with language,…

Random Posts, Matrix, Brossard, Ian Curtis, 24 Hour Party People, Wayde Compton, Zolf, Bachinsky, Beaulieu, Goodwin, Carson, Joy Division and more

Apologies for the increasingly random posts. For some reason deadlines seem like magnets for other deadlines which seem like magnets for upstart combustions and implosion of various natures, expenses and…

Wiesel, Frey & Stein

Well, there are memoirs and then there are memoirs… This whole Frey mess might actually be contextualized with the Wiesel memoir. I doubt it, but I’m teaching a research writing…