. My previous post accounts for why I have spent the past 26 hours feeling miserably reptilian, tossed to the side of the road, catatonic on my back. Tssssssssssss. I am miserably persistent, too. I researched data recovery programs – free data recovery programs, which are, especially in trial forms, as good at the full-price software […]
Exploded Head
. My head has exploded after working for six hours yesterday on 2000 difficult words that I did not save and for which no variation on Microsoft Word auto recovery has worked to find even a temp file. I will be back online and among the barely recognizably human after I have recovered the pieces, reconstituted […]
The Other God That Failed
. Of course, nothing so far can match, or is likely to, the epic-historical failure of twentieth century Marxism. The cost of that failure, if not actually beyond measure, surely transcends any measure the mind can really grasp. Other failures, however, cannot be denied just because they do not reach a comparable magnitude. Dionysus was […]
The Poetry of Democracy
. In my Poetic License column for the fall issue of West, I return to last year’s New York Review of Books contretemps between Helen Vendler and Rita Dove over the latter’s The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. When I first wrote about the dispute, I considered the the politics in poetry. In “Diction and […]
The American Socialist Century
. The Manchester Union-Leader, long an emblematic journalistic voice of the Republican Party, New England strain – before the advent of Tea Parties and general no-nothingism – isn’t quite that anymore. Do not say it is not trying to adapt, however. President Obama and Mitt Romney, and the courses they propose for this […]