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Rivers and Mountains – John Ashbery (1966)

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Mark Kerstetter

Originally posted on 1960s: Days of Rage:
“Charles Bernstein just made an announcement about an exciting new project that just went live on the web: a ‘genetic’ critical edition of John Ashbery’s long poem ‘The Skaters’ created by Robin Seguy.…

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Posted on December 31, 2019 by Mark Kerstetter
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What’s in Your Ego Tunnel?

Posted on October 30, 2018 by Mark Kerstetter

The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger is one of those books I should have read when it came out in 2009. But, like many of the books I read, I came to it by chance, in this case when a … Continue reading →

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It’s alright, Ma (it’s only the Nobel)

Posted on October 16, 2016 by Mark Kerstetter

Bob Dylan has had detractors and naysayers going all the way back to the time he “went electric”, so it’s no surprise that a vocal minority is crying that he does not deserve the Nobel Prize for Literature. What does … Continue reading →

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Beckett’s Doubles

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Mark Kerstetter

No doubt about it. There were two of them —Chris Tysh, Molloy: The Flip Side Hear the unbearable voices bloodily erupting out of Mouth, trace the dark and dismal death of Malone, cross the checkerboard landscape of Watt, the desolate … Continue reading →

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The Silence of the Work

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Mark Kerstetter

Blanchot: The writer never knows if the work is done. What he has finished in one book, he begins again or destroys in another. ….although the artist is not capable of ending it, he is nevertheless capable of turning it … Continue reading →

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The Writing of the Disaster and Lucky

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Mark Kerstetter

Where power does not reign—nor initiative, nor the cutting edge of a decision—there, dying is living. There dying is the passivity of life—of life escaped from itself and confounded with the disaster of a time without present which we endure … Continue reading →

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The end of a stint

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Mark Kerstetter

Originally posted on Michael Brodsky Blog:
Kierkegaard: “It is said of the poet that he invokes the muse to supply him with thoughts…This indeed has never been my case…on the contrary I have needed God every day to shield me…

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Samuel Beckett and Barbara Bray: A New Documentary

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Mark Kerstetter

Originally posted on RhysTranter.com:
Through exclusive interviews and previously unseen photographs, a new documentary offers an intimate portrait of the relationship between translator Barbara Bray and Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett About the Documentary Rue Samuel Beckett: Barbara Bray…

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Kenneth Goldsmith User’s Manual

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Mark Kerstetter

Sometimes a good way to learn about something is to learn about what it is not.

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