January 2010
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Montmartre » Archives » Polka Pola →
found this wonderful blog via Fiona of Strange Fruit.
“Why the fanboy neediness? Because although I love print and I surround myself...”
– Steve Jobs Is My Master now. Yours too.
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10 Best Songs About Libraries and Librarians -...
Flavorwire » Mixtape: 10 Best Songs About Libraries and Librarians
Heh. Must pass this on to the good folk at LINT.
Edwidge Danticat on the earthquake in Haiti
Haiti, the earthquake, and my family : The New Yorker
By the time Maxo’s body was uncovered, cell phones were finally working again, bringing a flurry of desperate voices. One cousin had an open gash in her head that was still bleeding. Another had a broken back and had gone to three field hospitals trying to get it X-rayed. Another was sleeping outside her house and was terribly thirsty....
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Le Figaro - Livres : Cette catholique qui défia... →
Figaro has a review of the diary of Francoise Siefridt, who as a nineteen year old student in France was imprisoned for wearing the yellow star in solidarity with the Jews. From the review (my translation follows):
‘Le style dépouillé de la diariste renforce l’horreur de la réalité décrite : « Cet après-midi, il arrive mille enfants juifs sans leurs parents. Les plus jeunes...
“‘…what’s really insane to me is that the publishing industry is so...”
– I want to be the rain on your game-changing gadget - Chad Post at Three Percent.
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john tranter in bleeding chunks
From ‘Four diversions and a prose-poem on the road to a poetics’, Parts 1 and 3.
1 — Condensed Soup A theory of poetry is usually cut to fit some ideal poem, using the methods of reverse engineering: ‘Take this ideal poem — now what poetic model would have been used to construct it?’ Most actual poems, on the other hand, are jerry-built on their own pragmatic scaffolding, a poetics...
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John Ashbery speaking
From a brief interview with John Ashbery at Boston.com
Q. Your poetry has been described as difficult. How much work should poetry require of the reader?
A. I intend my poetry to be read without head scratching. I think of it as something very immediate like music, which embraces one without having anything to do about it. Of course, that’s not the opinion of many critics of my work, but...
“Cataloguing easily becomes poetry.”
– Penelope Fitzgerald, ‘Thinking About Balcombe’. A House Of Air: Selected Writings (Harper Perennial:London, 2005), p. 488.