… (especially P.J.Macquer) with an eye for implicit epistemic commitments of a Foucaultian sort. But alas: too caught up … part of the reader, this book is a series of technical studies of the visual effects of modernist Russian poetry and … to Taos. Four Reasonable Men, by Brand Blanshard. Wesleyan $26 cloth, $9.95 paper Brand Blanshard is 94 this year and …
Notes to Self
… Blanco had spent the previous year working on several commissioned occasional poems and had been exploring the … the poem to cooperate, to syncopate with the photo while also standing on its own. How to lock into the subject of … a single line. Flirting with a title. “I can’t fully commit to a poem until that warm-up is done—what I like to …
Criticism
… as personal opinion inserted to interpret field case studies. I found these insertions to disrupt the flow of the … and Betrayal, by Ethan Gutmann. Encounter, April 2004. $26 Gutmann’s insights hit us at a critical time: How will … in a catastrophe.” In agreement with the ex-king, Macintyre points out that, over the centuries, Macedonian, Mogul, …
… Traffic Jam The words come slowly, arrive slowly, changed by travel; some are … softened and faded and what it touches it softens and fades also. End of a season. The trimmings for the festival were … to point and stare. Pretend you don’t notice are words that come easily: our mothers used to hiss them into our ears, …
… Western Europe out of a slump by increasing imports (the “locomotive”)—then urged to salvage the inefficient industries … Industry (MITI) is providing research and development subsidies to the major computer manufacturers (Fujitsu, Hitachi, … The bulk of the military budget is spent in supporting the 260,000 members of the Self-Defense Forces, but there are …
Profiles
… Side, we holed up in a squat and barricaded it like a medieval fortress, welding the doors shut from the inside and … taken over five towns in Chiapas, posting demands on their website for indigenous rights and autonomy, in what was … the driver jumps out of the cab and runs away. On September 26, packing to leave New York, Brad sent an e-mail to Al …