Sunday, March 23, 2008

GOOD NEWS: ANNE STEVENSON, SAMUEL MENASHE and YASMINA REZA

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---some--- A rare moment in publishing. The Library of America has published a very very good book: SELECTED POEMS by ANNE STEVENS...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

WAITING TO HEAR with consoling readings from ROBERT PINGET and LOUIS MARIN

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---preface--- "But who stuffed our heads full of these images? The people we saw in offices? Our reading matter? It must be our read...
Sunday, March 16, 2008

THE IRISH TIMES IS THE FUNNIEST NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD WITH AN AFTERWORD FROM ROBERT PINGET

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---forward--- The Saturday Irish Times arrives in New York on Sunday morning. At one time The Irish Times was one of the greatest news...
Monday, March 10, 2008

ST. PATRICK'S DAY. EDMUND WILSON, PATI HILL, HANNAH GREEN. THE STANDING ARMY OF IRISH POETS

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S. Before I get to the 17th--- St Patrick's Day--- I have a round about way of getting there via the very poorly annotated journal of Ed...
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Friday, March 7, 2008

TO HAVE BEEN IN LISBON. PESSOA, ALAIN TANNER

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----High Road--- 1. At the beginning of February a woman from Harper Collins asked me if I would like to join a group of writers in Lisbon, ...
Tuesday, March 4, 2008

ROBERT PINGET, RICHARD PRICE AND SO WHY BOTHER?

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----how---- George K a psychoanalyst friend used to say that the most intractable problem his patients had to face was that they had ruined ...
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Sunday, March 2, 2008

MUSEUMS ARE GARBAGE DUMPS: JACQUES RIGAUT, EUGENE LAMBE, PIERRE DRIEU la ROCHELLE, NICOLAS POUSSIN

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---what--- Museums are garbage dumps. They are a little better organized than the rubbish pits beloved of archaeologists... Of course the c...