Monthly Archives: October, 2007
the perpetual busy
I think it’s a rule that every blog ever created somewhere has an entry excusing the blogger for being rather quiet because they’ve just been so busy. But really, I’ve been busy. I’ve been making our new house cozier with throws and curtains and such, and have been wading through Hamlet with my eleventh-graders. Plus …
I, you, me
The Poetry Foundation has a great interview up with Elinor Wilner, a poet not previously known to me. She has a pronounced distaste for the use of the first person in poetry, both literally and figuratively, saying to her interviewer, “People, by and large, are not that interesting.” She also thinks that the preference toward …
repeater
I remember reading once an article (somewhere, by someone, I’m sure) where the author discussed how legendary New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani loves to use the word “limn,” in all it’s splendid forms. It was actually reassuring to read how such a well-known writer also falls prey to the common trap of overusing …
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