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Monday, January 24, 2005 |
My attention span is about forty milliseconds, so quickies today.
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Jilly Dybka is at the No Tell Motel this week, starting off with the shaman's song "I have married a crow." While you're there check out the archives for work by po-bloggers Laura Carter, Shanna Compton, and Catherine Daly (there may be others I don't recognize).
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I don't have a TV here in Maryland, but back home in North Carolina I think there'd be revolution without one. A week ago I finally got to see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind on pay-per-view, and felt really stupid when I learned the title came from Alexander Pope. Salon has a review (for subscribers or for watching a 30-second ad) of a new book on Heloise and Abelard, based on newly discovered letters between the pair, which makes Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard" seem even more appropriate for the movie and for the unlucky lovers. I'm going to resist asking the obvious question about mass-media nearly 300 years from now.
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Greg Perry's grapez has been wonderful all month long.
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Re-reading a few books of poetry that successfully penetrate my incoherent state: Alicia Stalling's Archaic Smile, Sam Gwynn's No Word of Farewell, Thom Gunn's The Man With Night Sweats, Kim Addonizio's what is this thing called love, and Michael Donaghy's Conjure are all open on the bed beside me. Conjure has truly wonderful opening lines:
The Excuse
Please hang up. I try again.
'My father's sudden death has shocked us all'
Even me, and I've just made it up, ...
2:50:51 PM 
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2006 Michael Snider.
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