Archive For September 5, 2019
Cleaning my computer. Busy work. Exhausted from dodging cancer and jury duty and Hurricane Dorian and a poisoned puppy. Like it ain’t enough to be old and wracked with pain, I have a buddy who seems to support mass murder over safe churches and mosques and synagogues. And what are those folks praying about, I…
VIA TIN HOUSE Hanif Abdurraqib on Book Tours, Vacations, and the Joy of Coming Home By Hanif Abdurraqib The dog trainer tells us there’s not a lot of research on dogs, and the research there is seems to be wildly inconsistent. She tells us not to trust everything we read about dogs on the internet while our new…
“Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs – no regular hours, so many temptations.” ONE ART Lose something every day. Accept the flusterof lost door keys, the hour badly spent.The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster:places, and names, and where it was you meantto travel. None…
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. – Leo Tolstoy
A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity. – M.F. White Elephant Art and Termite Art (1962) By Manny Farber Most of the feckless, listless quality of today’s art…