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Other Gardening News (K-Z) (30)31 Dec 69 Translation as Scholarship The literary translation community is buzzing with the most recent guidelines from the Modern Language Association. Entitled "Evaluating Translation as Scholarship: Guidelines for Peer Review," this document calls for giving translations serious consideration in hiring and/or tenure review... 31 Dec 69 Unconscious, Invisible It seems to me to be a process of looking for something in there, rather than having something and revising it. I don't consider that I really have anything yet--except inchoate mess. As I work on it, I'm always trying... 31 Dec 69 Breadcrumbs My open tabs often tell a tale, and today's tabs read like a Gertrude Stein story. Starting from right to left: Why Apple Shares are Dirt Cheap: Admittedly, I skimmed this article and meant to go back to it, but... 31 Dec 69 Auden on teaching poetry One of my favorite quotes from Michael Newman's 1974 interview with W. H. Auden, published in The Paris Review: INTERVIEWER Have you ever taught writing? AUDEN No, I never have. If I had to ?teach poetry,? which, thank God, I... 31 Dec 69 Penelope PENELOPE In the pathway of the sun, In the footsteps of the breeze, Where the world and sky are one, He shall ride the silver seas, He shall cut the glittering wave. I shall sit at home, and rock; Rise,... 31 Dec 69 Beautiful beyond imagining The title of this post comes from John Updike's 2008 article "Visions of Mars," which appeared in National Geographic. It ends with this paragraph: The dead planet is not so dead after all: Avalanches and dust storms are caught on... 31 Dec 69 Inscription Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied,... 31 Dec 69 Soothe, Delight, Forever The April issue of O, the Oprah Magazine has an entire section (36 pages!) dedicated to poetry. David Orr may see this as a "sign of the coming apocalypse" (or "O-pocalypse"?), but I think it's fantastic... 31 Dec 69 Margaret Atwood is CRZ! According to Quill & Quire, Margaret Atwood, who maintains a very active Twitter account, has released an iPhone app that converts the most colloquial textese into Atwoodese. No joke (well, I think it is but will play along for the... 31 Dec 69 See you later The earliest post that you'll find on this blog dates to late March 2003, and fittingly, it is a poem titled "The International Congress of Fear." During a major redesign in early 2007, I backed up the blog and left...
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