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Women of the Avant-Garde:
2 podcasts from Ubuweb (via Harriet)
(part 1) (part 2)
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Talking with Jordan Davis
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Peter Watts,
beaten & busted at the US border
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The Journal of British & Irish
Innovative Poetry
Birkbeck launch event’s
talks by Andrea Brady,
Caroline Bergvall & Robert Hampson
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Prismatic Publics
4 generations of Canadian
post-avant feminism
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“Ron Silliman & the Future of Poetry”
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I’m makin’ a list
& I’m checking it twice…
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The Christmas tree in literature
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Wayne Wang & Paul Auster:
Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story
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Readings from
Does the Secret Mind Whisper?
A Celebration of Bob Kaufman
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Talking with Lydia Davis
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Rosmarie Waldrop on George Oppen
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Remembering Carl Rakosi
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Nostalgia & enunciation
in the work of Basil Bunting
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That old punster, Ho Chi Minh
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“What is my poem’s carbon footprint? ”
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Writing in trains
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Most popular PoemTalks
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What’s the buzzword for 2009?
Best neologisms of the decade --
meh
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Roman Jakobson:
“Linguistics & Poetics”
(reg. req.)
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Lorca’s grave turns up empty
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Talking with Orhan Pamuk
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Dick of the Dead,
our guide to the underworld
Opening with your strongest poem
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Poetry on the train in Jakarta
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Being a white reader
of African-American poetry
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20 Poems of Georg Trakl
chosen & tranlated by
James Wright & Robert Bly
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The Harryette Mullen translation game
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Best translated book award: poetry
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Philosophy prof won’t go to jail
for unauthorized Derrida translations
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David Foster Wallace grammar challenge
Where Infinite Jest is a best seller
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2 bad-ass anthologies
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The relentless pursuit of beauty:
Ed Snow’s Rilke
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Making rare books fun
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Dickinson’s
vispo
“Dickinson is not a zombie!”
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Milorad Pavić has died
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Thom Donovan
on the poetics of sight
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Fady Joudah on Mahmoud Darwish
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Talking with Terry Pratchett
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Reading Agatha Christie
in search of alzheimer’s
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The correspondence of
Leslie Marmon Silko & James Wright
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Top row poetics
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Inhabiting the poem
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“Correction of the Year”
is itself imperfect
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Looking for Walt Whitman in Camden
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2 books by Dan Beachy-Quick
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Ted Burke’s
“Best Books of the Decade”
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A look back at the noughties
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SPD’s best selling poetry for ‘09
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10 Canadian poetry volumes
for the 21st century
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No poetry from Library Journal’s
best books of ought-nine
(but a thriller from the author of
The Poet!)
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“Best Poetry of the Year”
from the Poetry Foundation Staff
“Best Poetry Books,”
The SF Chronicle selection
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The year in British Quietism
was downright noisy
& some just for Christmas
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“Best unread books of the decade”
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What The New Yorker crowd read in ‘09
(Muldoon recommends Waldrop’s Baudelaire)
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“A decade in books”
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Just how bad was this decade for books?
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Frank Sherlock’s “Over Here”
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Top Ten Mystery Lists
(multiple)
Summer Brenner’s I-5 is on lots of them
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The Village Voice list
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“Your best books of ‘09”
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Twinkle, twinkle, School of Q…
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Talking with Mike Young
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11 best book cases
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Vernon Frazer’s
Improvisations,
all 699 pages thereof
Much of Frazer’s work is downloadable
or can be ordered here
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Chinua Achebe:
The Education of a British-Protected Child
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The battle for Troy
over Homer’s ghosts
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What happens when you say “Lolita”?
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Reviews of books
on literature & war
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Gertrude Stein
in the Picasso Room
@ the Philly Museum of Art
January 3
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The good, the bad, the “good bad”
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Edward P. Jones:
from MFA to Pulitzer in 22 years
The stories of Edward P. Jones
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United States Artists’ grants announced
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A snarky digest of
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Of Dogtown
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The great Poe debate continues
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No pantheon for Camus
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Tips on writing from Dr. Seuss
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Walcott gets his poetry professorship
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A poem is not a puddle
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The mask of Dickens
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The Robert Burns Zombie Cottage
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Restoring Samuel Johnson
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Talking with John Balaban
W.D. Ehrhert:
“Words for John Balaban”
An appreciation of John Balaban
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Jura whisky releases a book by John Burnside
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Not a brooding poet
claims Simon Armitage
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Charlie Simic:
poetry in bed, prose at the desk
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Donne’s Holy Sonnets
are 400 years old
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Charles Wright reading
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Jeanette Winterson on Patricia Highsmith
Jonathan Lethem on Highsmith
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The poetics of resentment
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Reading can change your brain
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The featured author is the new
Ekleksographia
is Jack Foley
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Why Kafka’s manuscripts
still speak volumes
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In the West Village
Left Bank Books
may yet survive
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Court to Google:
stop scanning French books
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Stephen Covey bypasses publishers,
sells e-rights straight to Amazon
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Should e-books be copy protected?
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Late fees for the Nook
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Editor & Publisher
will publish in January,
but that may be it
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10 resolutions for journalism in 2010
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Dave Eggers saves journalism
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The last chapter for Borders UK
Books Etc founders attend the wake
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Out in the West Texas town of Laredo
there’s not a bookstore anywhere in sight
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David Kipen’s exit interview
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Connecting to writing in new ways
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Some new Celan translations
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Download all of Dee Sunshine’s books for free
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Coming in February:
John Ashbery at the 92nd St. Y
with Marcella Durand, John Gallaher & Robert Elstein
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e-reading Emerson
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A history of Charis Books in Atlanta
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Talking with Adelle Stripe & Darran Anderson
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In Faber & Faber’s archives
There never was a second Faber
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Overdue book returned
99 years later
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Anarchy at the NYPL
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The fetish of hard copy
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“America’s great poetic visionary”
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Chaucer for dummies
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Stealing words from Auschwitz
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Jack Spicer’s Young Goodman Brown
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Richard Hugo in Italy
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Pedro Pietri’s The Masses are Asses
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Anne Waldman’s
Red Noir
adapted & directed by
Judith Malina
@ the Living Theater
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Steve Benson’s
Views of Communist China
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Rain Taxi’s
annual auction is under way!
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Silver linings in NEA audience survey
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Maggie O’Sullivan:
visual works 1972 – 1995
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Erwin Panofsky:
On the Relationship of Art History & Art Theory
(reg. req.)
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Schwabsky on abstraction
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Manny Radnitzky of Philadelphia
& who he became
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LA Times’
10 most fascinating museum shows of ‘09
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Talking with Arthur Danto
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Making art in Kibera
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Carmen Herrera & the love of a straight line
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Talking with Tosh Berman
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“Picasso, I want my face back”
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The Malibu rock
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Close reading Kind of Blue
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Celebrating the Waterboys
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The CFO with her banjo & her Grammy
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The latest impossible Terry Gilliam film
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Patti Smith, the movie
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Obama’s arts policy – the word is caution
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Women of the Year
3 books that rethink feminism
A feminist “weekly reader”
The “Nancy Meyers Effect”
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Redicovering democratic Leninism
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What it’s like
in all the other universes
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The man who refused the Fields Medal
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Did the west invent Arab homosexuality?
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But, until then,
the designers for next season’s
Project Runway
(starting Jan. 14)
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It would appear
that Saturday’s “Walking Poem”
may have been written by
Dr. Hugo Heyrman
