There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
The librarian does not believe what she sees.
Her eyes are sad
and she walks with her hands in her dress.
The poems are gone.
The light is dim.
The dogs are on the basement stairs and coming up.
Their eyeballs roll,
their blond legs burn like brush.
The poor librarian begins to stamp her feet and weep.
She does not understand.
When I get on my knees and lick her hand,
she screams.
I am a new man.
I snarl at her and bark.
I romp with joy in the bookish dark.
/mark strand, "eating poetry," 1979
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prospect lauds sarah palin as the next potential american poet laureate:
Not since Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass has there been such an electrifying debut. And she is yet to publish a collection. This is an astonishing poetic insurgency. The building momentum will soon be unstoppable.
The current American poet laureate is Kay Ryan, a recent and controversial choice. Six weeks ago, Michael Kelleher, the artistic director at Just Buffalo Literary Center, said of Ryan, “She kind of came out of nowhere. She’s the Sarah Palin of poetry right now.”
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james oakes asks, what's so special about a team of rivals?
There is little doubt that Abraham Lincoln was a great president. But not much of what made him great can be discerned in his appointment of a contentious, envious and often dysfunctional collection of prima donnas to his cabinet.
Jennifer Schuessler answers, not much:
“Consider this incovenient truth,” Pinsker writes. “Out of the four leading vote-getters for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination whom Lincoln placed on his original team, three left during his first term — one in disgrace, one in defiance and one in disgust.”
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The rough surface of the moon no longer looks starkly black and white. It has been rendered instead in a broad palette of grays, which give the moonscape a dimensional presence it never had in the photograph that first appeared. The cloud patterns that hide the surface of Earth, a crescent earth, are much more subtle.
What is most evocative is the awareness that this is our planet in 1966, which feels like a very long time ago. A train of thought immediately presents itself. If scientists can recover extensive new information from old electronic data, shouldn’t there be some way to peer beneath those clouds, back in time, and see how this planet looked when it had only half its current population?
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via: astronomy picture of the day; ny times
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the new york times talks about thanksgiving gravy:
“I think you have to make the real thing,” she said. “Gravy’s really critical, it has to be flavorful and rich to enhance everything. Gravy is like the salt of the Thanksgiving table.”
another top chef turns in his michelin stars
Mr. Roellinger was not clear about what he will do next. But he said he wants to share those flavors in a less formal setting.
“After having fed the well-off,” he said, “I want to share my cooking differently: less mise-en-scène, with a more fluid, accessible and natural experience. In a word: more modern.”
obese women choose weight loss surgery and and unhealthy pregnancies in lieu of self-directed mental and physical wellbeing:
Dr. Laura Riley, medical director of labor and delivery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said it’s important for patients to know about these risks. “I often see women who come in who are morbidly obese, and they say they’ll try to lose 10 or 15 pounds. That’s nice, but the majority don’t lose the weight and just come back pregnant,” she said. “With this kind of data, it’s easier to say, ‘You are better off having bariatric surgery and losing 100 pounds and then getting pregnant.’”
i doubt there are a lot of fat rape victims in south dakota who choose to have abortions. the state's two biggest tourist attractions are god and country.
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chuck klosterman's killing yourself to live is going to be made into a movie:
The book's tales center on locales ranging from the site where members of Lynyrd Skynyrd died in a plane crash to the place where Kurt Cobain committed suicide and Rhode Island's Station nightclub, where more than 100 fans died at a Great White concert when pyrotechnics caused a deadly fire.
The death sites serve as backdrop for the author to explore everything from the narcissism of pop culture to his own relationships with women in his life.
"The idea is to do a comedic road movie heavily based in rock 'n' roll," said Klosterman.
related: chuck reviews gnr's "chinese democracy:"
The weirdest (yet more predictable) aspect of Chinese Democracy is the way 60 percent of the lyrics seem to actively comment on the process of making the album itself. The rest of the vocal material tends to suggest some kind of abstract regret over an undefined romantic relationship punctuated by betrayal, but that might just be the way all hard-rock songs seem when the singer plays a lot of piano and only uses pronouns.
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creative loafing interviews brendan canning:
The Boston Herald recently described Broken Social Scene as "the Canadian indie-rock version of American Idol." Are you comfortable with that portrayal?
We do hire horn sections every night in different cities and have different vocalists on stage who we have never met before. That's sorta what American Idol is, but not totally. It's a lil' cute way of putting it. Cute enough.
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the ny times profiles the making of bjork's "wanderlust" music video.
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