June 19, 2009
The International Version…
of my weekend reading suggestions is posted at Words Without Borders.
In addition to that I’d add this brief piece at the Christian Science Monitor bridging Twitter and Geoffrey Hill’s poetry:
Hill came to mind today while I reflected on the Internet response to the election crisis in Iran. In the confusion following the contest between incumbent Ahmadinejad and progressive Mousavi, the interconnected world of the social media has played a role whose ultimate force and effect have not yet been revealed. Dissidents in the country have used the Internet to rally the Web to their cause; in the West, users of Twitter and Facebook have flocked to the virtual scene, lending their energy through a confusing blend of cyberwarfare, rumor-mongering, and witness.
And this great bit by Ed Park at the LATimes Jacket Copy Blog that defies tidiness:
Last week, columnist Ed Park reviewed “A Monster’s Notes” by Laurie Sheck. This is his remixed, expanded, deconstructed/reconstructed remake of that review.I.
“Good idea the repetition. Same thing with ads.” — Joyce, “Ulysses”Mary Shelley’s mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, died 10 days after giving birth to her.
“This is ordinary. I was a body coming out of another body that died. That died because of my body.” — Laurie Sheck, “A Monster’s Notes”
“This was scant said but all cried with one acclaim, nay, by our Virgin Mother, the wife should live and the babe to die.” — “Ulysses”
I don’t know which file contains my review in the form of notes and which contains my notes for the review in the form of notes.
Bloomsday now. Still writing this.
Sources for all of these are the good people of the Twittersphere. Except for this – check out the always excellent Triple Canopy’s pieces on Urbanisms – Model Cities
Have a great weekend!
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Sorry to leave a comment on an old post, Bud, but I’m getting ready to buy the Shorter OED and wanted to thank you for bringing it to my attention.
– Maud
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Fantastic and terrifying.
– Anne Fernald
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It’s exciting to watch how literature is beginning to utilize more diverse mediums– the videos, the internet, hyper-texting etc. But probably what’s most exciting, and will end up being the main contribution to literature, is when e-books become the norm and all of these resources can be incorporated into the actual book, as opposed to the book being one thing and what goes on in the internet another. It will all be rolled into the actual ‘text’. Very exciting.
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