the purest of treats (Free subscription) | yesterday
Everybody called Gertrude Stein Gertrude, or at most Mademoiselle Gertrude, everybody called Picasso Pablo and Fernande Fernande and everybody called Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume but everybody called Marie Laurencin Marie Laurencin.
ASA Citation (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
“A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”, “There is no there there”… These are, probably, the most famous quotes of Gertrude Stein that you have heard. Some people do not even realize this, but Stein greatly contributed to the development of modern literature and art. Maybe, we [...]
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
The basic Story e-reader from iRiver is on sale in the United Kingdom for £229. Specs: —Optional touchscreen, 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity. –Six-inch E Ink screen with 600-by-800 resolution and grayscale. –ePub, PDF, TXT, Office .doc, PPT, XLS. Plays MP3, WMA and OGG audio and shows JPEG, BMP and GIF. –2GB of RAM and SD card slot [...]
] Outside the Lines [ (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
These have been going 'round the poetry blogosphere a bit, but I had to share a few here. Click for more! Arthur Rimbaud and Thomas Chatterton walk into a bar. They are carded. Sylvia Plath walks into a bar. The bartender says,”What’s cookin’, good lookin’”? Gertrude Stein walks into a bar, thinking it was a bar. But it was a bar. John Ashbery walks into a bar. The bartender...
Blog For Arizona (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Arizona has gone from Governor Janet Napolitano and the Republican legislature enacting a ten percent income tax cut in 2006-07 to give back a tax surplus because "it's your money," to a state in economic free fall...
LEMON HOUND (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
It's true, you put stuff out there and you get lovely surprises. Some of them good. This from Kenny Goldsmith: The Malady of Writing: Modernism You Can Dance To (MP3) In collaboration with MACBA in Barcelona, UbuWeb is pleased to present a podcast accompanying their new exhibition entitled The Malady of Writing, a project imagines a pleasurable, humorous and fun version of modernism. This
Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
She was the youngest winner ever of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and the first one born in the 20 th century. Just 24, it wasn’t even her first book, coming seven years after The House of Silk. He was older and more established, holding the post that is now called Poet Laureate of the United States. Not only were they husband & wife, but she was also the great-great granddaughter of Percy...
Exoskeleton (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
[Here's my response to Barbra Jane Reyes blog entry on the Harriet Blog (it gets me every time!) about reviewing books in translation:] Hi Barbra Jane and Co, Here's my advice: You review books of poetry in translation in a similar way you review other books of poetry: You try to figure out what's going on, what makes the poems tick, what they are concerned with, how they operate. You want to acknowledge...
Uncle David (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I do not differentiates between The surrealism and the objective Strategies of the imagism And I will not say that other creatures Are just objects to be played with I define what my soul clarified With the instruction of what I know Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein The tender buttons has found their rhymes. In the rain a petal stains the wind In the wind the rain sings the associations...
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
When Picasso tried his hand at poetry, Gertrude Stein was livid! She said something like, “Things belong to people, and writing belongs to me.” Do you share this proprietary feeling about writing, or anything else you do or like? What belongs to you and not your friends/family? If you say the Simpsons or Bob Dylan [...]
Alchemy Of Trading, L.L.C. (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
2:18 Jesse Livermore talked about traders who think they must trade every day to get their "daily bread" from the market as if they are working for wages like normal people. It's a problem. I have to fight that too....
Wilson's Blogmanac (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
1919 Sylvia Beach opened Shakespeare and Company, the first combination English-language book shop and lending library in Paris. Beach befriended many of the world's writers, particularly in the 1920s and '30s, when her shop was a gathering place for expatriate writers and French authors pursuing new found interest in US literature. She also published the first edition of James Joyce 's Ulysses . The...
dbqp: visualizing poetics (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
As I like to say, I’ll go a long way for poetry, so after work yesterday I drove a little more than an hour to Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson to hear Rachel Blau DuPlessis give a reading. I don’t normally pay attention to the readings taking place at Bard, but our friend Anne Gorrick had given Nancy and me a few days’ forewarning, so I was able to make it—not Nancy, however....
The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, Wes Anderson's magical Fantastic Mr. Fox, a provocative Man Ray retrospective, and the Newport Jazz Festival goes digital. Wes Anderson's Fantastic...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
When I am not writing a column or this blog, or debating conservative colleagues on PG+, or generally running around like a blue-arsed fly (as they say in the old country), I write some of the anonymous editorials that appear on the Editorial Page of the Post-Gazette. They are written in such a sober and official voice, different from my personal writing, that you may not know which ones were authored...
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