September 2009
8 posts
“when Obama announced that “Iran is breaking rules that all nations must...”
– Scott Ritter
haiku
I heard him whistle, heard him stop or stopped. And heard blown fast the fast breeze.
“On launching, the paper billed itself as the first new quality Sunday title for...”
– Wiki
“Iran has gone opaque.”
– •••
The kiss
Email to Paul Abbott
David Norbrook, 1987:
‘Moreover, it can be questioned whether [Geoffrey] Hill really does give opposing voices equal weight. Ambiguity gains its air of even-handedness by first making a set of binary oppositions that are bound to prejudge the issue.’
I remember long ago we had an argument about this very matter.
Is the difficulty that of my understanding of the...
'these / Lips debate and praise': the best critics...
A tentative list
John Bayley
Brett Bourbon
David Bromwich
Merle Brown
Eric Griffiths
Stephen James
R. K. Meiners
Kathryn Murphy
Christopher Ricks
Vincent Sherry
And maybe—
David Gervais
Adam Kirsch (wrong conclusions ..)
E. M. Knottenbelt
William Logan (does he actually know what he thinks?)
Peter McDonald
Jeffrey Wainwright
The worst
Daniel Mallory
Sean O’Brien
Tom...
“Whatever pretty justifications are invented for staying there indefinitely,...”
– Greenwald
“it would be indefensible for the U.S. military — overextended and in need...”
– Will 