Monthly Archive: July 2013

melancholy

Against Conceptualism Defending the Poetry of Affect Calvin Bedient July 24, 2013 Boston Review The head poetries shut off melancholy like a mudroom… I’m making an accidental study of melancholy. Surprisingly, the same analysis...

epic ride

Brooklyn Waterfront Epic Ride Not sure why it is called epic the route being in the shape of an “e”? 40 miles, more or less 9.5 miles an hour sunny and warm, humid sunburn...

prescription

Peter Altenberg: A Flâneur for All Seasons Feeling happier after reading this. “Get thee to the coffeehouse!” Okay. As for writing, his chosen medium was a feuilleton-style prose poem of anywhere from a sentence...

very short things

Interview with Lydia Davis, The Believer Boring: genre discussion. Really, how many times can writers tread over this same worn territory? It must be induced by the publishing industry. Interesting: Austrian Peter Altenberg

night gate

Detail from an outdoor stage set, performance of Othello. The image looks very cooling to me in the midst of a heat wave.