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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-03-28

Sunday, March 28, 2010

http://twitpic.com/1a0dym – Shhhh # Oklahoma # Texas # New mexico # Staying in the summer timeshare in tucumcari that willy wonka shares with h giger. # Arizona # California # Narrowly averted death by mountain lions or starvation. Snagged last gas station for 70 miles on blinking empty. # Reached the end of interstate 40. [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-03-21

Sunday, March 21, 2010

@elleeffect another day of work & no blueberries. oh well. i will demand blueberries next time. in reply to elleeffect # willpower wanders weeping-ward: wilted weal-walled well, wintery weir. wonder whether weltering work will weather. whatever. # i predict an increase of sluggish tonally augmented vocal sonic projections & floral ensemble deliveries as a result [...]

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The Best Farewell I Know

Friday, March 19, 2010

I’m continually impressed by Ezra Pound’s translations of Li Bai (or Li Po). This poem in particular, and especially now, as many of my friends (so many) scatter across the country. They all go to better things, and not a one is sad, but nonetheless, to echo Pound: Let us resolve also to make nothing [...]

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Si Tu Me Olvidas

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Let’s not postpone enjoying poetry until we have time for poetry. Make time instead. This one is by Pablo Neruda. Si Tu Me Olvidas Quiero que sepas una cosa.

 Tú sabes cómo es esto: si miro la luna de cristal, la rama roja del lento otoño en mi ventana, si toco junto al fuego la [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-03-14

Sunday, March 14, 2010

"…there is a dignity in defeat that hardly belongs to victory."" — Jorge Luis Borges, from his talk, "Word-Music, and Translation" # @mynameis_shoe yes. i do this occasionally, and it never fails to tint my day gray a bit #positivethoughts #inexorablepassageoftime #itburns in reply to mynameis_shoe # RT @themattlondon: My first short fiction sale! @johnjosephadams [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-03-07

Sunday, March 7, 2010

"Despising, for your sake, the City, thus / I turn my back: there is a world elsewhere." — Coriolanus # i want a peach that has been laying on the counter, ripe in a paper bag, warmed by the sun. # @plasticbrentley "This. Is. Durhaaam." (kick) in reply to plasticbrentley # i guess what i'm [...]

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Braindump: Atemporality and Memory

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

This unorganized lump of speculation is more or less a dump of my brain’s activity after I read Bruce Sterling’s talk, “Atemporality for the Creative Artist,” which he gave at Transmediale 10, Berlin, Feb. 6, 2010. A few quotes: Refuse the awe of the future. Refuse reverence to the past. If they are really the [...]

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Apply to the Clarion Workshop, 2010

Monday, March 1, 2010

Today is your last day to apply for the Clarion Workshop. If you write short stories, apply. I haven’t written about the workshop much (at least on here—in private correspondence I’ve written extensively) but since I attended last year, in the summer of 2009, I’ve grown as a reader, writer, critic, observer, tactician, &c. My [...]

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