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"I'd be interested in your opinion of his Duino Elegies if you ever get a chance to read them. I prefer Mitchell's translation, but Snow's is pretty g...more"
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“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small). By reading any text of popular science we quickly regain the sense of the absurd, but this time it is a sentiment that can be held in our hands, born of tangible, demonstrable, almost consoling things. We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.”
― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
“I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty
“We play at believing ourselves imortal. We delude oursleves in the appraisal of our own works and in our perpetual misappraisal of the works of others. See you at the Nobel, writers say, as one might say: see you in hell.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666
“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries. ”
― Theodore Roethke
― Theodore Roethke
How He Got His Red Coat (Poetry)
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updated Jul 05, 2011 05:19pm
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poem, previously published in the Sonora Review
Tiny Stories About Sons (Poetry)
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updated Feb 21, 2011 05:12pm
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The last poem series in my manuscript 'The Sea is White'. Previously published in Little Red Leaves http://littleredleaves.com/
Anne Carson's Plainwater: A Review (Literature & Fiction)
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updated Mar 29, 2010 04:36pm
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A creative-review. First published in Can We Have Our Ball Back?
Revelations (Poetry)
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updated Dec 12, 2008 11:16am
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Early poem. Originally published in the Indiana Review
Negatives (Poetry)
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updated Dec 12, 2008 11:16am
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Early poem. First published in the Sonora Review
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