Specters of the Wu-Tang: Anarchism and 36 Chambers (Part 2) |
Death Chamber:The Wu-Revolution and its Impossibility
Mediatization calls everything "real" into question. Caught in a culture where virtually all information passes through the networks of the mass ...
Posted by on Thu, 22 May 2008 01:43:00 GMT |
Specters of the Wu-Tang: Anarchism and 36 Chambers (Part 1) |
Let's learn ninja moves.
Bogdan Raczynski"Samurai Math Beats"
Dirty, I keep shit stinks in my drawers so I can get phza funky for ya. Murder, taste the flame of the Wu-Tang RAHH!
Ol' Dirty Ba...
Posted by on Thu, 22 May 2008 01:34:00 GMT |
Arcade of Bones: Henry Dumass Kef Series |
In the night, the trance sets itself off from everyday reality with fine, prismatic edges. It forms a kind of figure, and is more easily memorable. I would say: it shrinks and takes on the form of a...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:41:00 GMT |
Adrian C. Louis’s "Dust World" [Take II] |
"Dust World"
Irony and cynicism saturates Adrian C. Louis's "Dust World." Set in the infamous Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the poem unfolds against a background of Third World living conditions and...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:55:00 GMT |
Yusef Komunyakaas "The Nazi Doll" [Take II] |
"The Nazi Doll"
Yusef Komunyakaa's "The Nazi Doll" inventively satirizes the Nazi subject. Written in 1979, it is not an immediate response to the horrors of World War II and the Shoah but is a refl...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:53:00 GMT |
Hospitality and The Spoils of Poynton |
Uncanny Friendship:Hospitality and The Spoils of Poynton
We are only looking to fill a void, we cannot bear the pain: the affirmation of this void. Who could agree to recive i...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:13:00 GMT |
Mark Dotys "Homo Will Not Inherit" |
"Homo Will Not Inherit"
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I'm going to punish your mouth.
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Mark Doty's "Homo Will Not Inherit" reckons the law(s) of hospitality. Fascinatingly written in trecets, the poem is a response to a fli...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:44:00 GMT |
Adrian C. Louis’s "Dust World" |
"Dust World"
Adrian C. Louis's "Dust World" reeks of irony and cynicism. Set in the infamous Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the poem unfolds against a background of Third World living conditions and ...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:42:00 GMT |
James Merrill’s "An Urban Convalescence" |
"An Urban Convalescence"
James Merrill's "An Urban Convalescence" tends to call attention to its postmodernity. Recovering from "a week in bed," the speaker in the poem steps outside into the street...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:39:00 GMT |
Ruth Stone’s "Pokeberries" |
"Pokeberries"
My whole life has been stained with pokeberries.
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Ruth Stone's "Pokeberries" simultaneously imbricates writing onto feminist identity politics and feminist identity politics onto ex...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:57:00 GMT |
