Monthly Archives: June 2011
the unacknowledged legislators of the world
Dear Poetry World, I love you. But even before I went to bed last night I was beginning to consider regretting* my previous post. There is shrapnel flying around, and here in Baroque Mansions we aren’t crazy about shrapnel. But … Continue reading
Filed under the end of the worr-uld
Business as usual in interesting times
One of the hardest things about growing up is having to learn about all the horrible things that happened before you were born: things you couldn’t have done anything about even had you been alive, which you weren’t; and things … Continue reading
The Waste Land: now shiny
Making it new, again In which we discuss the pros and cons of recent developments, in the light of several different considerations On the one hand it is “the future of books:” a Hogwart’s Land we could even recently only … Continue reading
Filed under poetry, the end of the worr-uld, Uncategorized
Happy Bloomsday all
On this very day in 1904 Leopold Bloom traversed a Dublin that lay just behind the Dublin anyone could have traversed, and which in fact still lies right behind it; having left his house so his wife could cuckold him … Continue reading
Filed under books, James Joyce, Uncategorized
In which Ms Baroque is a climate change scientist
Okay, this is what happens when you add job-hunting on top of everything else I’ve already been trying to do: no blog posts. And then when there is one, it has this random stuff on it that goes all over … Continue reading
