Claire Daigle writes: In 1959 Twombly executed some of the most spare works of his career, among them the 24 drawings that comprise Poems to the Sea, done on the coast of Italy. What order of poems, punctuated with numerals and question marks, are these? The sea is reduced to horizon line and word, scribblings and…
Tag: Roland Barthes
Maggie Nelson on “vernacular scholarship”
Today I will recommend GENEVIEVE HUDSON interview with Maggie Nelson at Bookslut, here is an excerpt: I need to talk back, or talk with, theorists and philosophers in ordinary language, to dramatize how much their ideas matter to me in my everyday life. I can’t really partake in straightforward academic writing because its language…
Death of the Author
Stephen Dobyns essay Deception counts barely ten pages, and here I am about to write my third blog-post on it – again I’m looking at his text from a European point of view. What suddenly struck me, as I came to the middle of Dobyns’ text, was a certain likeness to the French thinker Roland…
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