i will helps you tyep!
Tuesday 9 March 2010 | I like a cookie
Pyewacket tried to help me tyep a comment just now, in my last post which, God help me, references Elin Woods. She’s not a very good tyeper; it looked like something Wol would write.
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(Italics hers.) I absolutely cannot be blogging today. There are 17 papers needing commentary before 11 am, so I absolutely cannot be blogging. Nope. Can’t do it, can’t do it, shouldn’t do it, won’t do it. Also just allow me to remind myself politely that comps are due Friday, thesis due first week of April, and I won’t know the fate of my New State School waitlisting (three PhD slots and I am number four! I love being number four) until April 2. And the Brujo and I, despite differences, are grown-up enough to declare an armistice and flee together on Friday to a desert hole somewhere for our spring break, and we are not emerging until no one makes us grade anything.
So instead of something decent from me, why not read this from Jim Behrle, on how to become the most famous poet in America overnight. Or this from Don Share, on how writing 3,070 poems over the course of a lifetime can, by contrast, make you an eventual “quiet king of the quotidian.”
Or, here’s a fun website in which poetry Regulars ask poetry Élites all our prurient and rude hoi-polloi questions, and they (sort of) (in general) answer! (Sample blunt question to Jorie: “Do you think you’re a better writer then the readers are readers?”) Or finally, peek at the ephemera in the newly assembled DFW archive for which the University of Texas must have paid, as they say, handsomely. Most alluring to me are the juvenalia (“Viking Poem”! I may have to travel to Austin someday just to read “Viking Poem”) and the marked-up dictionary. Neroli. Talion. Gravid. Uxorious.
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