tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58005632024-03-23T14:23:02.920-04:00the unquiet grave | "adding insult to inquiry"TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.comBlogger395125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-66388921608148573612009-06-16T18:57:00.001-04:002009-06-16T18:57:39.427-04:00We have moved shop to here, America.TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-18154402394065181382008-12-05T20:31:00.003-05:002008-12-05T20:56:52.499-05:00Perhaps I am rounding the bend on completing my third full-length manuscript, called Consequence.This is the picture that I've been using as a front piece for the document, from Andre Leroi-Gourhan's Gesture & Speech:These are the epigraphs I've used as I've written the manuscript, though it's never certain whether they'll remain:Between a culture of touch and a culture of thought is the TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-74267574435247319952008-11-15T17:20:00.001-05:002008-11-15T17:22:13.387-05:00Tony Tost's Winter Soundz 2008hereorhere1. Yes, "Beyond and Before"2. Daryl Hall, "The Farther Away I Am"3. Fleetwood Mac, "Sentimental Lady"4. Dennis Wilson, "River Song"5. Bee Gees, "Melody Fair"6. Buddy Miles, "That's the Way Life Is"7. Kevin Coyne, "Marlene"8. The Beau Brummels, "Jessica"9. Bob Dylan, "Gospel Plow"10. Tom T. Hall, "That's How I Got to Memphis"11. Guy Clark, "Instant Coffee TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-82989770646574344612008-10-23T20:47:00.003-04:002008-10-23T20:52:10.538-04:00I scrolled through some of my posts from '04, fer shits and grins.What the hell happened to that guy? I kind of dig that guy.Who replaced him with the twirling academic gargoyle that sporadically pops up on here these days?Duke, where have you hidden my soul sauce?What else of I have you bent over in your politically responsible gloom?TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-21889835020589051562008-10-21T16:57:00.001-04:002008-10-21T16:57:58.181-04:00My dissertation is centered on the poetry and poetics of Ezra Pound (1885-1972), that troubling impresario of what we now call Modernism. His profiles are manifold: poet, translator and critic; composer, editor and discoverer of geniuses; gadfly, Fascist and would-be whisperer to kings. Although Pound – who lived most of his life in exile, and who was tried for treason after WWII and committed toTThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-39106597501624021842008-08-07T11:49:00.002-04:002008-08-07T11:51:20.925-04:00I hope Rod Smith doesn't mind that suddenly I have a vague urge to play a game of chess with him. Rod used to play chess with John Cage, who cut his teeth on the game by playing with Marcel Duchamp. I don't know how to play chess. And thus this parable on genealogy and tradition comes to an end.TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-68621132043713735712008-07-29T15:38:00.001-04:002008-07-29T15:40:47.370-04:00Great, generous, warm-spirited look at three recent North Carolina, Lucifer Poetics Group poetry titles by fellow Lucipoer Brian Howe -- he takes a long dip into Chris Vitiello's Irresponsibility, Ken Rumble's Key Bridge, and my Complex Sleep. It's over here, at Fanzine.TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-3481606646483315382008-07-20T08:06:00.003-04:002008-07-20T21:28:42.275-04:00Tony Tost's Summer Soundz 2008(Update: I recommend clipping the Roches song off of the mix: it works better w/o it. )1) Maria Sabina, "Na Ai - Ni Tso"2) Dennis Wilson, "Thoughts of You"3) John Phillips, "Topanga Canyon"4) Nicky Hopkins, "Waiting for the Band"5) The Everly Brothers, "Ventura Boulevard"6) Dion, "(He's Got) The Whole World In His Hands"7) Tom T. Hall, "I Hope It Rains at My Funeral"TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-61056177796022221832008-06-10T13:54:00.002-04:002008-06-10T13:56:17.725-04:00A few selections from my longer "Elephant & Obelisk" sequence are available now here at Front Porch Journal. Thanks to Trey Moody and the other folks at the journal.More selections appear at Typo and in a forthcoming Third Coast.TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-56585995318022267752008-05-11T19:55:00.004-04:002008-05-11T22:15:05.956-04:00One thing I think I was trying to do in my "System Says" piece (a couple posts below) is to think through some things bugging me and to think through them using Kenneth Goldsmith's words as quoted and linked to by Linh and to combine them with thoughts about embodiment as Linh had quoted Reginald Shepherd. I'm not a fan at all of the way Goldsmith talks about poetry or the arts: he does what I TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-42497106325195491192008-05-10T11:03:00.004-04:002008-05-10T11:33:18.970-04:00My third list:Minor Field (genre)Re-Imagining Language: Poetry in English{North America; 1950 – present}{Ur-Text}Jed Rasula & Steve McCaffery | Imagining Language: An Anthology (1998){Some Precursors, North American & Otherwise}Hugo Ball (Germany) | Flight Out of Time: a Dada Diary (1920-21)William Blake (England)TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-32824185444776773562008-05-06T23:02:00.002-04:002008-05-06T23:06:48.145-04:00System Says(for Linh Dinh)I thought to myself, wow, writing is so far behind other art forms in this regard. . .Twenty five years after Baudrillard, these poetry students were still prioritizing Romantic notions of authenticity -- "truth", "individuality" and "honesty" -- over any other form of expression. My god! Is it a case of naivety, amnesia or just plain ignorance?. . .Now is the time of TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-85767434740273070122008-05-06T17:22:00.003-04:002008-05-06T17:27:36.269-04:00To risk making a fool of myself, I think I'm gonna post one of my four exam answers; this particular question concerned the relation of new media as a theoretical field and my interest in poetry and poetics. My third exam field was experimental poetry in North America post-1950, emphasizing three strains: the oral/musical; the visual; the procedural. In this exam answer I try to sketch out one TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-14626294534717107572008-05-06T08:28:00.002-04:002008-05-06T15:01:07.336-04:00My theory list was heavily influenced by a critical studies in new media course I took with Tim Lenoir my first year and TA'd for my third; my basic notion is to look at poetry & poetics as media-specific productions. Minor Field (Theory): New MediaWriting/Speech/GestureBolter, Jay | Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print, 2nd ed. (2001)Clarke, Bruce &TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-14640041434025704482008-05-05T22:09:00.006-04:002008-05-06T08:27:08.177-04:00Jasper posted his lists for his upcoming exam; Duke's approach, I think, is pretty different: our major field lists tend to be massive, beyond the capabilities of one person (at least in the allotted one year reading period), and often are taken to be a kind of landscape one must be able to navigate. The two minor field lists are usually more focused and direct. Our exam structure: two twelve TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-53210804398553548272008-05-04T18:08:00.000-04:002008-05-04T18:08:12.214-04:00TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-49760759473389429312008-04-22T23:19:00.000-04:002008-04-22T23:20:08.372-04:00I made an "Unquiet Country" mixtape at muxtape here.TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-38862823615975308172008-04-17T18:19:00.002-04:002008-04-17T18:20:56.363-04:00A titan just passed from the land of the living.RIP Aimé Césaire.TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-34500554483399796042008-04-01T16:12:00.003-04:002008-04-01T16:20:30.501-04:00Welcome back, and greetings, baseball.Love,Tony and Simon, respectivelyPS: Thanks, Mark, for the M's onesieTThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-85447678330234619062008-03-31T20:53:00.004-04:002008-03-31T21:11:21.822-04:00Little energy except for a sort of bullet list type deal --* we took Simon to the doctor today for a two-month checkup and for his first immunization shot -- he's 25 inches long and 15 pounds, which puts him in the 98 percentile on length and weight* finished my two 12 hour written exams and my 2 hour oral exam, so now I am ABD (all but dissertation)* my intuition is that my dissertation will TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-14391095988175402972008-03-29T13:01:00.003-04:002008-03-29T21:06:24.473-04:00TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-13423818716388033832008-03-09T21:39:00.000-04:002008-03-09T21:40:30.109-04:00Simon waking up on the day he turns seven weeks old.TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-24661470572756943372008-03-08T11:42:00.002-05:002008-03-08T11:53:38.370-05:00TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-13771377143009012162008-03-05T21:50:00.002-05:002008-03-05T22:14:58.584-05:00The top twenty greatest country vocalistsname / strength & character / range / expressiveness & emotion / quality of material [all 1-10 range]1. George Jones / 10 / 10 / 10 / 92. Lefty Frizzell / 10 / 9 / 10 / 103. Tanya Tucker / 10 / 10 / 10 / 9 (weighing her pre-1980 recordings very heavily, and discounting most all post-1980)4. Merle Haggard / 10 / 9 / 9 / 105. Loretta Lynn / 10 / 8 TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5800563.post-13577960311418762192008-02-24T14:41:00.001-05:002008-02-24T14:43:22.550-05:00The amazingly interesting and continuously satisfying thing about children is that they are not small adults but a race by themselves. It took the Greeks a long time to recognize the correct proportions between a child's head and his total body length; at first they used the adult ratio in making a child. Primitive people partly recognize this in the elf and gnome myths--just kids. Really they TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229noreply@blogger.com0