Silliman's Blog: links

Do databases have a sense of humor?
Amazon recommends
that if you buy
Ed Dorn’s
Way More West
you should also buy
my own
The Age of Huts (compleat)

Trying to document
the growth of
Guyanese poetry

Maltese
renaissance

Martín Espada
gives a
commencement address

Celebrating
the new
Konkani
poets

Len Roberts
has passed away

The latest
from
Donald Hall

Yet another article
bemoaning
the loss
of indie imprints

Was C. Day-Lewis
as dashing
as Daniel?

This week’s
bookstore obits
come from
Manitowoc, WI
&
Arvada, CO

Wondering just how quiet
Quietude should be

Neo Rauch
at the Met

Saturday, May 26, 2007

Gary Snyder
on Jack Kerouac

& against
the new
nuclear enthusiasts

Linh Dinh’s
video archive

Wise men fish here

Auctioning off
the remains of
Gotham Book Mark

The used & rare
book trade
in Moscow

Writing in
totalitarian
times

Languages
as design objects

EAOGH’s
3^rd issue
is on
Queering Languange

Hear the massive
launch reading
at the Bowery Poetry Club
here

A protest poet
in the language of
Marathi

“The profession
that professionalizes best
professionalizes least”

Sharon Harris’
photo archive
of the Toronto
literary scene

Jonathan Lethem
on Philip K Dick

Secret grammar

The Promethean spirit
in the poetry of
Siddhicharan Shrestha

Really – this
is the real
talking with
Leonard Gontarek
site

(I had the wrong URL on Wednesday)

Gender & typing

A feminist poet
in Calcutta

Garbage in,
fiction out

Contemporary Iranian poetry
on the trams of Stuttgart

Talking with
Louis McKee

More like fantasy baseball
for books

Bring back
the English major!

From blogs
to books

Karl Marx:
The Hollywood Years

Bad Time Rhymes

The slush pile

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Garrison Keillor
needs to
take a break

Ending the manuscript

Because he’s a purveyor
of stereotypes

Reading Matthew Rohrer
as the next James Tate

The poetics
of Roddy Woomble

Roy De Forest
has died

Richard Serra
at MoMA

Reinventing
the Detroit Institute of the Arts

Invasion
of the
art consultants

Installation art
goes to court

What $72 million
will buy
in the Rothko market

Oh, but who gets the $$$?

The next
Henry Moore

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Dancing on Hippie Hill, Golden Gate Park (Photo by Robert Altman)

Summer of Love
40 years later --
Michael McClure’s
memory

Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s
recollection

Wavy Gravy

Mountain Girl

Woz

Altered books
&
shrunken ones

Weird poetry videos

(looks better on
Internet Explorer)

An argument
for copyright protection
that never ends

When is a book
out of print?

What Susan Schultz
is reading

Lydia Davis:
the story
as logic poem

Reading Gao Xingjian
in the People’s Republic

Ain’t gonna work on
David Wojahn’s
farm no more

A Kurdish poet
reads to parliament
in the U.K.

Shrink lit

Serious vs. accessible

“Apparently not all poets
are dour, driven creatures.”

The poetry police

Canada’s
”greatest unknown poet”

The best defense
of Ed Dorn
yet

The novel that ate
Ralph Ellison

Death of a bookseller

Writing a eulogy

Shakespeare’s politics

Baseball haiku

Striving for the ordinary

“the contemplation of nature
at his homes in Key West
and an 80-acre wooded spread
in Cummington, Mass”

(why the School of Quietude
is so quiet)

Stalin, the poet

How a song
commissioned by
Czar Nicholas I
played a significant role
in the careers of
both
Pete Seeger
&
Irving Berlin

From Pope to Burns
them well-wrought urns
start to look
wobbly & crack’d

The poetry of
John Ash

Why the rash
of literary festivals?

“a dreamy urgency…

The feeling is not gloomy,
but a gentle and haunted…

Unornamented and intimate”

Catullus remembered
by a poet
who dares to
Wild Civility

Talking with
Amy E. Laub

Chatting with
Chatterji

Sexism 101:

Torontoist calls her
”Velocity Girl”

“The Literary Wife”

“Mom, This Poem’s for You”

The exhibition
you could almost see

On the road
with Merce Cunningham

Daniel Libeskind:
from accordions
to architecture

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Profiling
Jim Behrle

Language poetry
and the body

Profiling
Molly Saccardo

John Cage
has a secret

A theory of subtitles

BookSwim:
Netflix for books

Emily Lloyd
dives right in

“The average life span
of a Web site
is only
44 to 75 days”

~~Don’t~~ Howl for me,
Argentina

Robert Creeley’s
birthplace

“Sue your publisher!”

“Money’s poet”
& the NEA

Book reviews & bookstores –
another disconnect

The Little Red Book
of Poe-ee-tree

Designing
the neighborhood library…
underground

Or voting
to close them

Slab City Slam

Gary Snyder
& the
Ojai Poetry Festival

This week’s
”death of a bookstore”
piece
comes from upstate NY

The closure
of the only bookstore
in Paoli, PA
(where I live)
a week ago
got no notice whatsoever

(silver lining:
I bought 7 bookcases
for $70)

Scary story

The other poet
from Virginia Tech

“10,000 recordings
by over 200 writers” –
The AP piece
on PENNsound
turns up
in the
Chicago Trib

This compares to
the 501 recordings
that the
Poetry Archive
(which likes to call itself
” the world's premier
online collection
of recordings of poets
reading their work”)
had as of Friday

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Brits to
save
Paul McCartney
(or, more likely,
Michael Jackson,
who owns the Beatles song catalog)
from the poor house

(Paul does own
the music of Buddy Holly,
Grease &
Guys & Dolls)