If you go into either expecting pinnacles of fiction, you’ll be disappointed; however, if you place no expectations upon your reading/viewing experience, you might have a good time. \rThe sheen of moon took the business of night \rover, installed somewhere a cistercian box, \rthe heavenly pallor of papers finally cities \rinvolved with darkness - small things \rfrom earthly books our union kept in a version\rsuited to lower takes, away with too much \rsummer under the night, and reserved, giving \rmore than it takes - I come with John\rMichael Robbins.\rSo what?\rlove you really. Not...another...word!\rTake a deep breath of that nitrous oxide...and forget what you just wrote...and say...'I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.' What sparked this meditation was a blog I read last week, or two weeks ago, on the Venice Bienalle by Stefano Tonchi, entitled “Venice, Slowly Surely” in the New York Times, June 9. Look at you, with that wild look in your eyes! At times more important. These changes can often be linked (vaguely perhaps) to his particular working space, and also to whatever state he is in emotionally. There's nothing else beside the weather, button up and bother.\rThat's one of the hugest ironies of the Empire, that such clumsy, local people could have done it! The novel, the essay, reportage, even the printing of gossip grew along with the growth of literacy and the mechanization of publishing. . Charles Bukowski. Michael Robbins \r"This is a blog not a lecture hall"\ranti-intellectual isn't it, the behaviour of a runner away from the mountain, surely poetic learning is not something that can only happen if you hand over thousands of bucks and have some pedogog try and get you worshipping at the altar of their genius in person.\rI must be doing summat right if you react this way over a simple speculative discourse being ventriliquized in a safe, controlled environment of the New Free University where a fully ticketed ollamh sniffer sits and sings to sue the suit of one's whole art and soul via the medium of write-through of one of Ashers finest - yer young fogey. Shift to your typical painter’s studio: the smell of turpentine and oils, dust, canvas, glue, cigarette smoke. But old Toledo is an ancient fortress town situated on a tor, high above the Castillean plains. This word shouldn't carry a negative connotation: it means "being comprehensive. I'm sometimes in the mood for that myself. Unless you live in Antarctica, maybe. Cats, unlike dogs, have no problem knowing who they are! Western Europe is cushy by comparison. That the visual, the image is what we know ourselves to keep translating into any language that will have us. Don,\rI agree Ashbery is the 'least polemical of poets.' Thomas Hardy is an amazing example in which this tension between public and private discourse (read prose and poetry) is played out in the selfsame author. He also wrote the short story, ‘Bhikharini’ in 1877 and the poem collection, ‘Sandhya Sangit’ in 1882. I read three-card monty as metaphor for Ashbery's poetics. Ashbery was my teacher, and continues to be one of my closest friends and favorite poets, though I've long since shirked off his influence (except for the buried part, the pith of what he taught me about poetry). ROUND END Similarly, his films were never meant to be anything more than they were: experiments, funny exploits, and improvisations. \rWhenever I have doubts that anyone can write poetry today I think of Seamus Heaney, and all is well.\rI'd love to know the genesis of this poem. \rB. Su Tungpo (1037-1101) Su Tungpo is also called Su Shi. Indeed, haven't we lost touch with the majority of cultures in the world in which it's even more important to be who, or even what, you were when you were born?\rI find Americans in particular have a really hard time getting their minds around the Buddha's anatta (no-self) teaching, whereas your average London, Brugge or Lyons bourgeois understands it only too well. You could see, beneath the clutter of canvases and pallets and tables with their jumble of tubes and pots that someone had tried to make a home there. The voice being ventriloquized in the above follows the Ashberyean mode of remaioning detached for the purpose of speculative discourse. \rhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKUZuv6_bus&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F&feature=player_embedded \rSometimes I believe I may know--why one has eyes. This is all intentional, as Guardian writer Andrew Gallix reports that Warhol wanted to produce a "bad novel." So from where did your artist get the idea? Here, to meditate upon, is John Ashbery, writing in the July 1957 issue of Poetry magazine, excerpted from his review of a recently-published edition of Gertrude Stein's Stanzas in Meditation:\rThere is certainly plenty of monotony in the 150-page title poem which forms the first half of this volume, but it is the fertile kind, which generates excitement as water monotonously flowing over a dam generates electrical power. 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