I’ve been reading often and widely on McCain’s rhetorical strategic switcheroo (he drops the experience claim after picking Palin) and his tightrope-walking on change (he’s ninety percent the same as Bush but avoids all mention of the Prez and claims that he would bring everything New New New New to government). Blogs several times per day.
William Carlos Williams' misunderstood, overused mantra, "No ideas but in things," succeeded in mobilizing the young modernist and later post-modernist base (to use the election-se
Blog tail wags newspaper dog
I’ve been reading often and widely on McCain’s rhetorical strategic switcheroo (he drops the experience claim after picking Palin) and his tightrope-walking on change (he’s ninety percent the same as Bush but avoids all mention of the Prez and claims that he would bring everything New New New New to government). Blogs several times per day.
Anti-intellectualism & its contents
William Carlos Williams' misunderstood, overused mantra, "No ideas but in things," succeeded in mobilizing the young modernist and later post-modernist base (to use the election-se
Zap retrospective
One of the new shows at the ICA is "R. Crumb's Underground".
Few peers among rats
Dennis Drabelle has published a review of Counter-Revolution of the Word. Here are two excerpts:
A course about itself
This fall I'm teaching my favorite course — a crazily fast-paced survey of modern and contemporary American poetry.