Peerage News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
_. Richard Edward Howard-Vyse, who died 15 November, 2009, aged 68, was a scion of that LG family. He was b 1941, son of Lt-Gen Sir Edward Dacre Howard-Vyse, KBE, MC (d 1992), by his wife the former Mary Bridget Willoughby (b 1910), scion of the Barons Middleton (cr GB 1711); married 1965, Sally Rosemary Whalley, dau of Cdr R.R. Whalley, RN, and had issue, Thomas Norcliffe, b 1971;...
] Outside the Lines [ (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
I've been way for far too long with this kind of post. Some recent links about gay poets! Richard Howard's WRITING LIFE Bruce Snider interviewed on Brian Brodeur's "How a Poem Happens" Do you remember who you were reading when you wrote this poem? Any influences you’d care to disclose? I’d been reading the New York School poets, especially Frank O’Hara and...
Queens Crap (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
... legs. That is a coyote! I'm a country boy from Georgia. That's exactly what it is," resident Richard Howard said. Noreen Savage said the idea of some kind of animal roaming around out there makes her nervous and she wants it captured. Animal Control officers have set up a series of traps. They think they're going to find a stray dog. But you never know.
Planet of the Blind (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
... Enfer ou Ciel, qu'importe? Au fond de l'Inconnu pour trouver du nouveau!" Here is a translation by Richard Howard: "Pour us your poison, let us be comforted! Once we have burned our brains out, we can plunge to Hell or Heaven--any abyss will do-- deep in the Unknown to find the new! " One needn't be a student of theology to sense the odd combination of anguish, fear and delight that...
London Review of Books (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
... apex of an academic career in his country, he describes himself as ‘un sujet incertain’: in Richard Howard’s translation, ‘a fellow of doubtful nature, whose every attribute is somehow challenged by its opposite’. He goes on to say he has had a university career without the degrees that would normally be required for such a trajectory; that he wanted to work within the fields of literary,...
New Jersey Poets and Poetry (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... Members Thursday, November 5, 7:00pm PASSWORDS: Rika Lesser on Göran Sonnevi Introduced by Richard Howard Rika Lesser will discuss her English-language translations of the poetry of the preeminent Swedish poet Göran Sonnevi . Examining the scope of Sonnevi's single oändlig (unending, infinite) poem that continues from A Child Is Not a Knife (Princeton University Press,...
[helix] (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
A found picture on my camera of a place I can't quite recognize. What happens then? Can I reverse Google earth it? Or maybe the elf who has been pilfering my camera and shooting photos with it can shed some knowledge. Can you? It makes me think of Roland Barthes . The book of the day is "A Lover's Discourse, Fragments" by the aforementioned gentleman, translated by Richard Howard...
autopoiesis (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
... is the character of the work of art.” (p. 50) (Gilles Deleuze, Proust & Signs . Trans. Richard Howard)
London Review of Books (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
On we sailJulian Barnes Afloat by Guy de Maupassant, translated by Douglas Parmée Alien Hearts by Guy de Maupassant, translated by Richard Howard One of the great examples of literary advice-giving took place in the summer of 1878. Guy de Maupassant was on the verge of becoming famous. As Flaubert’s literary nephew, and a member of the new group calling themselves Naturalists, he was...
Underbelly (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
... in extensive footnotes (unfortunately, in tiny type). In a jacket blurb, the historian and critic Richard Howard expresses surprise in the discovery that Proust's use of art was not just window dressing, but "bearers of allusive meaning, which makes [Proust's work] the most powerfully inclusive experience in modern reading." One can only wish that somebody would do the same...
BBC Sport (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Eleanor Simmonds wins her fourth title as Great Britain continue to dominate the European Paralympic Swimming Championships in Reykjavik.
