Category: literature
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Instead of just sitting still long enough to grade 39 quizzes in US history over my break/office hour I’ve instead read through a couple of blog posts, did a search… more ›
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Well, I kept my cell phone on buzz from late September until today hoping that I’d get that call either from the MacArthur Foundation or Sweden. No such luck. I… more ›
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I’m enjoying my trek through Daniel Weissbort’s From Russian with Love, a book about his friendship(s) and (professional) relationship(s) with Joseph Brodsky, translation theory, Russian, literature, and death. It is… more ›
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A hundred years of his undying death articulating as if the singular unsaid, unsaying, unsayable, in its fully exteriorized impossibility against the homogenized totalization of a text, an other. He… more ›
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This afternoon I had my students do a close reading of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave for the entire class period, and I have to say that they did an… more ›
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This afternoon I had my students do a close reading of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave for the entire class period, and I have to say that they did an… more ›
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toothpastefordinner.com Guilty. I wrote bad poetry until my poetry was published by a publisher of bad poetry. Then I was too humiliated that my heart-wrenching poems were enclosed in the… more ›
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toothpastefordinner.com Guilty. I wrote bad poetry until my poetry was published by a publisher of bad poetry. Then I was too humiliated that my heart-wrenching poems were enclosed in the… more ›
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If it’s not the hunger and lack of interest in any of the food I find on the streets here—I mean there’s only so many cheese pizzas, cheese sandwiches, tomato… more ›
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If it’s not the hunger and lack of interest in any of the food I find on the streets here—I mean there’s only so many cheese pizzas, cheese sandwiches, tomato… more ›