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Small Press On!: ‘The Invention of Glass’ | MODERN JARGON
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Making sense one utterance at a time. 8216;The Invention of Glass’. January 11, 2013. The blurb on the back of a book, often naively oversimplifying, cheesy, or otherwise ridden with empty praise, is usually dismissed by the “serious” reader. But the neat block of blue text on the back cover of. The Invention of Glass. By Emmanuel Hocquard/translated by Cole Swensen and Rod Smith may have you clinging onto it as if it were an ancient stele. 8220;What is the meaning of blue? The Wasteland and Other Poems.
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Open Access: knowledge, democratized? | MODERN JARGON
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Making sense one utterance at a time. Open Access: knowledge, democratized? April 8, 2013. On Monday, January 14 of this year, I was listening to Democracy Now. An independent and arguably ‘hardcore leftist’ news program, over FM radio via the Sony boom-box from my 15th(? If academic journals are made free and public, should also academic books, often the result of years of labor by academics in every field? Material vs. immaterial? Thing vs. non-thing? Unable and able to be rendered into a digital file?
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P.K.14: Beijing Underground in Translation | MODERN JARGON
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Making sense one utterance at a time. PK14: Beijing Underground in Translation. August 13, 2014. Left- 2001; Right- 2011 (Yang is first from left in both). So that’s the short intro. If you want to know more, there’s been a lot of great work done and pieces written by people who actually live in Beijing and are part of the scene. Also a wealth of materials available for streaming from labels 兵马司 Maybe Mars. 刚刚开始… 刚刚开始…. 刚刚开始… 刚刚开始…/. How lovely and strange is the night. Leaves tremble after shadows.
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Small Press On!: ‘I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say’ | MODERN JARGON
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Making sense one utterance at a time. 8216;I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say’. January 3, 2013. Madrid, Mardud, Madrid al-Katib: these are some of the poet-speakers in Anthony Madrid’s collection of ghazals,. I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say. If I am impenetrable in this and my other verses,. It is only because you can’t penetrate a wall that is not there. I am the poet MARDUD; I had no childhood. Whoever wants. To get at my meaning will have to turn her back on her childhood. But modern history has sho...
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The Substance of Style #004: Taipei | MODERN JARGON
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Making sense one utterance at a time. The Substance of Style #004: Taipei. June 24, 2013. The title of Tao Lin’s latest novel,. Shouted out from a matte black cover in self-consciously kitschy, fat, disco-reflector letters) holds the promise of something brave and exciting, of a context of place, of socio-geographic accuracy. But it’s soon clear that the promise is allusive. Well maybe to East Coasters, but the idea here is a generally “American” existence in an extended youth culture. Falls flat stylist...
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Some Thoughts on Tenderness: The Bell Jar, La Pianiste, Lolita | MODERN JARGON
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Making sense one utterance at a time. Some Thoughts on Tenderness: The Bell Jar, La Pianiste, Lolita. July 22, 2013. A professor in college once suggested that. Can be read as a novel of repressed lesbianism, on the part of its narrator Esther and its author Sylvia Plath. He pointed to the rare passage in which Esther experiences a thrill of happiness:. 8230; I sensed Constantin turn around. “Is your hair always like that? Constantin is of course a man, but that’s beside the point:. Michael Haneke’...
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rlezhang | MODERN JARGON
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Making sense one utterance at a time. Review of Niedecker via Woodland Pattern. January 22, 2016. My review of the first two Lorine Niedecker monograph pamphlet series here via Woodland Pattern’s blog. Penberthy, Jenny. What Region? 11 Lorine Niedecker’s Century 1903 2003. Friends of Lorine Niedecker, 2015. Hayes, Paul G. […]. Read Article →. AT MOS via Notes on Looking. December 26, 2015. Click on the drawing to read the poem via notesonlooking.com. Read Article →. December 8, 2015. Read Article →.
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The Substance of Style #005: ‘Debts & Lessons’ | MODERN JARGON
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Making sense one utterance at a time. The Substance of Style #005: ‘Debts and Lessons’. August 30, 2013. What it means to be “sophisticated” or (even more cringe-worthy) “cultured” its most admirable contribution to modern life. There are two recent strains of poetry that I like and find very exciting. One of these is the talky-talk, narrative, prosy fashion à la John Beer. The Other is the theory-informed, vigorous, language-focused mode à la Ben Lerner. And actually, our last #hipyoungwriter Tao Lin.
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Liberals, More Liberals, Race in Madison Wisconsin (My Year in Review) | MODERN JARGON
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Making sense one utterance at a time. Liberals, More Liberals, Race in Madison Wisconsin (My Year in Review). September 1, 2014. After moving from NorCal and spending four years of college in Los Angeles, I knew I had to leave. LA was not my city. I didn’t see eye to eye (to put it gently) with the blatant commercialism, the car culture, the beach-bourgeois glamour, the sunlight beating down on all those boxy cement buildings. Give me a break! At least we’re free on the west coast. 1 Liberals The white l...
