if, as IC (calvino) said the other night, description is an activity in which the writer can begin to resolve the irreconcilability of the written word and the unwritten world, is there a hierarchy of preferences of things to be described? should one pursue the description of objects that are more and more devoid of salient characteristics, for instance the cigar box given me by the j and r tobacco...
I got my copy of Vanitas with a very short essay by me on Lorca, translation, and prosody. Of course my first reaction on seeing was this was realizing that I spelled Zukofsky Zukovsky . I thought I had transcended that particular mistake. I really hate people who write Zukovsky, along with idiots who write The Wasteland or Finnegan's Wake or Alan Ginsburg . Those are mistakes I would never, ever make....
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{Photo by rocketlass .} Today was yet a great day in my ongoing love affair with the Internet, one of those days that, in a real-life love affair, you mark with sappy little stars and hearts (or some impenetrable code, if you're that sort) in your daily planner, the better to remember it years later when age and familiarity have dulled the power of that moment's passion. Quite a build-up, no? Well,...
I got a copy of the Spring 2009 issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction today, devoted to Georges Perec . None of the contents are available online, but you can see what the contents are: a mighty fine collection indeed. Longtime RCF (and Perec) fans and readers will, of course recall (and have) the Spring 1993 Georges Perec/Felipe Alfau issue, and quite a few of the pieces are re-used here. But...
As is traditional around here, I move from the deadly serious to the irretrievably trivial. . . When this blog was but a month old, I posted a list of the 55 Dalkey Archive books I'd acquired a couple years previously when a friend and I took advantage of their big sale (100 books for $500). I thought it would be amusing to take another look at this list in the context of my change in focus, shifts...
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