July 2009
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argabright:
It’s 12:34:56 7/8/9. This won’t happen again for 100 years. I don’t intend to still be alive then. But hey, who knows?
Actually, it will happen again next month, for Europeans. But this particular moment in time won’t be repeated, ever. So we’ve got that going for us.
“on 12 march 2002, i bought a pack of monorchid roller micro pens and a label...”
– The ragbag might be my new favorite website. It’s a museum full of weird etymologies, animal facts, a map drawn by Vladimir Nabokov, and other odds and ends. With an emphasis on odds. And it’s curated by someone who seems to be completely and charmingly mad.
“Despite the affirmative, vital presence of imagination, that playground area is...”
– Fear of Narrative and the Skittery Poem of Our Moment, by Tony Hoagland.
Hoagland doesn’t come back to distance as an important feature of contemporary poetry, but it seems like an important shared feature of both dissociative and narrative poetry. Distance can be as useful as elusiveness in...
“I keep wondering if we can find a broader cultural explanation for the...”
– More. Fear of Narrative and the Skittery Poem of Our Moment, by Tony Hoagland
“There may be yet another more hidden and less conscious anxiety behind the...”
– Tony Hoagland breaks down contemporary poetry’s mistrust of narrative and meaning. Fear of Narrative and the Skittery Poem of Our Moment, by Tony Hoagland