Alice slid down the cute and stopped along the way to enjoy
-- the poetry of F. T. Prince, represented with three exemplary poems, on Tom Clark's blog
-- a profile of Mets' announcer Gary Cohen, the best play-by-play man in baseball today
-- Notice that the caption on the TV had it that "Game of Thrones" was not eligible of this year's holocaust." With the sound turned off, I wondered whether it was "telecast" that was meant?
-- an interview with French scholar Vincent Debierre of the Unversity of Lyons: the subject, deconstruction; the guest, David Lehman.
-- Alice thought about Stanley Fish's statement that as a professor and scholar he was obliged not to speak the truth but to be interesting. Was this statement an example?
-- Kafka: "A melancholy conclusion. It turns lying into a universal principle." (The Trial)
-- Do you think deconstruction and its strategies as adopted in various disciplines has anything to do with the emergence of "fakery" and the underlying debate on what constitutes truth and falsehood?
-- Did you write a poem called "Fuck You, Foucault"? Yes, I did. It was published in Hanging Loose, the new issue of which has some wonderful stuff by such poets as Robert Hershon and Terence Winch.
-- Aren't Alan Ziegler's "squibs" swell?
-- Whether you have seen "La La Land," or not, the idea that its box office and critical success aroused controversy will seem either a foggy memory or a strange piece of info. But it did, and for its explication, and for excellent insights along the way about the art of Hollywood musicals, you can do no better than read Geoffrey O'Brien's essay "Let's Face the Music and Dance" in The New York Review of Books, April 6, 2017.
-- Then Alice, gainfully employed, had to go back to work.
on http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2017/09/ft-prince-three-poems-mimicry.html
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