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Poet and critic. Work: @adroitjournal @thelondonmag @aeon @xraylitmag @rphilos @hobartpulp @Poetry_London @thedrift_mag @LAReviewofBooks @havehadhavehad +

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Joined September 2011
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Eduard Antoniu@EditwitOct 19
"Little by little, the night comes around".
Daniel Fraser@harmlessfiresOct 18
'Little by little, we're being replaced by chains of uninterrupted images. Enslaving one another. Each image in its place. As are we, each in our place.' Ici et ailleurs, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville (1976)
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The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come. #YouSavedThePCC
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Daniel Fraser@harmlessfiresAug 4
My review of Karen Solie's 'Wellwater' in the Harvard Review: harvardreview.org/book-revie…

Wellwater

In Karen Solie’s poetry, contamination is both a thematic and formal principle. Her poems mix colloquial, standard, and technical speech elements, brand names and found material, the language of a...

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Daniel Fraser@harmlessfiresOct 14
'Rat', one of 3 poems of mine in the new issue of @ColumbiaReview: thecolumbiareview.org/poetry…
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Andrew Scott delivers this speech too slowly; I know some viewers will hate the way he breaks up the verse. AND YET even in spite of that I think this is the best delivery of this soliloquy I’ve ever seen. He makes it sound like it’s not a portentous speech everyone already knows but a morally serious real-time deliberation, by a highly intelligent person in extreme pain, considering what it would mean to end his own life.
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Melissa@magistrabeckOct 8
My interview with Anne Carson from a few years back. So thrilled she won the Nobel! thebookbindersdaughter.com/2…

My Pythian Interview with Anne Carson

The ancient Greek god Apollo, in addition to being associated with the sun, healing, and music, communicated Zeus’s will through a series of arcane messages at his prophetic shrine in Delphi. Betwe…

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Steve Mitchelmore@TwitchelmoreOct 7
Only one cover matches the edition I read, and the cover does seem important to the experience.
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Congrats to Socrates contributor Lisa Robertson. A rave by Ange Mlinko in NYRB. Socrates published an excerpt of the book: socratesonthebeach.com/lisa-…
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The Yale Review@yalereviewSep 16
Annie Dillard has died. In our Summer 1988 Issue, she wrote about the "surprising letters" and gifts that fans and readers sent her over the years—a fossil fish, a marriage proposal, a check for $2.50, and, again and again, questions about God. yalereview.org/article/annie…

Annie Dillard: "Making Contact"

The author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek shares the most surprising letters sent by her readers.

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Alina Stefanescu@alinerSep 16
May those for whom Annie Dillard is beloved find her absent presence in the coming days.
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Steve Mitchelmore@TwitchelmoreSep 13
Here's one of best.
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some of the greatest opening lines in literature
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Alina Stefanescu@alinerSep 12
In honor of this day, I give you Derrida’s Adorno Prize speech. 🖤 drive.google.com/file/d/16OL…

Hent de Vries, Jacques Derrida and the Theodor W. Adorno Prize of the City of Frankfurt.pdf

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Giles Goat-Girl@nadienadianadieSep 11
twenty five years ago Jacques Derrida received the Theodor W. Adorno Award.
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rick@rickksntssSep 8
made a list of other incredible movie-sharing accounts xitter.cf/i/lists/20891279001507…
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David Hering@hering_davidSep 8
70s Coronation Street is often indistinguishable from a Fassbinder film
𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖊@deirdrescigSep 7
nothing could prepare me for the greatest scene opening of all time
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Pedro Costa's speech today at Venice upon receiving the Bresson Prize
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Alina Stefanescu@alinerSep 5
"We know nothing of the world and will never know. All we say is metaphor which asserts at once our unknowing and our need to state in some language what we don't know.” - William Bronk, "Costume as Metaphor"
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troy james weaver@TeaweaveSep 5
still have a new piece in burial mag. go read it, if you want burialmagazine.neocities.org…

See, Tell, Hear, See, Touch, Feel

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Alina Stefanescu@alinerSep 5
This free event looks extraordinary 🖤
Beth Levin@op109Sep 4
Join us! xo
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Winter Pallaksch@pallakschhSep 3
“the poem as a philosophical sundial telling the time of history.” (Adorno, “Lyric Poetry”)
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Alina Stefanescu@alinerAug 31
Happy Monday to Beckett’s imagination! 🖤 docs.google.com/document/d/1…

Samuel Beckett, Imagination Dead Imagine

Samuel Beckett translated from French by the author Imagination Dead Imagine No trace anywhere of life, you say, pah, no difficulty there, imagination not dead yet, yes, dead, good, imagination dead...

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