Another Damned Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
... celebration of their visit (and, much as we love them, their perfectly timed departure): Silence Marianne Moore My father used to say, “Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow’s grave or the glass flowers at Harvard. Self-reliant like the cat— that takes its prey to privacy, the mouse’s limp tail hanging like a shoelace from its mouth— they sometimes enjoy...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
... Much Ado About Shakespeare’s Taxes . Today is also Marianne Moore's birthday: Baseball and Writing .
mirabile dictu (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... Hogue: In her latest book, Hogue embeds quotations from Buddhist leaders; the poets Robert Duncan, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens and Denise Levertov; celebrated Harvard English professor Elaine Scarry; and numerous others to create a patchwork effect of language and imagery, an effect that makes the reader consider Scarry’s argument that pain doesn’t “simply resist language but...
1000 Black Lines (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
October 30th is "the birthday of the poet and critic Ezra Pound, born in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho. Pound is famous for championing the Modernist movement, and he did this by celebrating and encouraging other writers like W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, H. D., James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, and T.S. Eliot. He is most famous for editing T.S. Eliot's huge...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
... Cotard's directorial role and Cotard becomes a cleaning lady.Got it'Well, how about this, then? Marianne Moore said poetry creates "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." Swap movies for poetry in that line and you have the work of Charlie Kaufman. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "Being John Malkovich," "Adaptation" -- they all have something real about them that feels...
Bionic Teaching (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
... “Farmer, Dying,” “The Church On Comiaken Hill,” and “Underwater Autumn 2 .” And finally, some Marianne Moore poems. Maybe you end it with the students creating their own wordle based on their favorite works from their favorite poet. They pick and justify the font, orientation etc. of the wordle they create for the poet based on his/her personality 3 . If you’re looking for a paper,...
Dialog International (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
... of course, never received the prize. Nor, for that matter, did Wallace Stevens , Ezra Pound , Marianne Moore or William Carlos Williams, all of whom were alive when Nobels went to Ernest Hemingway (1954), William Faulkner (1949) and Pearl S. Buck (1938). Leaving out Frost, Stevens and Pound is indeed a major embarrassment for the Nobel committee. And looking at the second half of...
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
... perhaps justified? According to Orr, no. He cites Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Robert Lowell, and Allen Ginsberg as worthy contenders over the years.But perhaps the obvious answer to Orr’s concern comes in another statistic he cites toward the end of his piece: “In the 20th century, only five poets from the English-speaking world...
