September 2008
3 posts
SMS/SOS
callmeicebox:
First of all, if you had chronic pain, I really do not think you would want a hug.
Annals of bookchat: Elegy for TitlePage revoked;...
The comments have been exploding here with news from the inside that Titlepage is not dead, merely in hibernation. Well, thank the ether for that! In the meantime I have been dosing on bookchat archivally, tying a rope around my arm and gleefully sticking every half hour a needle called Linebreak—an all-audio program from the 1990s about poetry, mostly avant and post-avant—into the back of my...
Look in the puddle, Narcissus!
To kick off a series of posts on the subject of Narcissism, we will begin by pointing to an essay by the poet Gabriel Gudding, “From Petit to Langpo: A History of Solipsism and Experience in Mainstream American Poetics Since the Rise of Creative Writing.” Here are two relevant quotations:
To this day the personal experience of the writer has been so foregrounded that the writer...