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Claude Rawson on Stanley Fish, Derrida, the Rise and Ruin of Critical Theory (1991)
The more things change, the more they stay the same — or get worse.From "Old Literature and Its Enemies" by Claude Rawson, London Review of Books, 25 April 1991. The identification of theory with…
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In Absence—This Unknowing [by Bianca Stone]
When you leave, facelessold lover, elementthat I have tried for so longto explain—I will besuspended betweentwo large stonesfor a momentthinking you were goodbefore I am revived.I will be laundrythat has gotten loosefrom the line.…
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Academic Graffiti [by W. H. Auden]
Auden collected his clerihews under the title Academic Graffiti (1952, 1970). Here are several of my favorites from the Auden oeuvre: When Karl MarxFound the phrase 'financial sharks,'He sang a Te DeumIn the British Museum. *…
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“Microbiome” by Andy Jackson [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Andy Jackson’s Human Looking (Giramondo) won both the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for poetry and the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal in 2022. The book’s title possesses a canny doubleness that can inform us…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: JANUARY 4, 2023
Today’s poem is by Anjanette Delgado—a powerhouse of a Miami writer. She has mostly written prose—the novels The Heartbreak Pill and The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho, with a third novel and a short story collection forthcoming…
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Breslin and Buffett: “To thine own self be true” [by Mitch Sisskind]
I got turned on to Jimmy Breslin when I read his novel Table Money many years ago. Later, I read his biography of Damon Runyon — a real masterpiece in my opinion. I was…
