The Poetics of Alien Lanes. Item: “My Son Cool”
Posted on June 17, 2007 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment
Although the poetics of Alien Lanes could be discussed for months on this blog, I only bring up the subject just now to point out a relationship between one of its enigmatic song titles “My Son Cool” and another cultural artifact: namely, Ron Howard’s 1989 film Parenthood. The film just happens to be on [...]
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Posted on June 14, 2007 - Filed Under | 2 Comments
My wife and I drove to western Pennsylvania this weekend. I had been there the previous weekend with Lewis to see a Pittsburgh Pirates game and had been so excited about the overall experience that Suzanne thought she’d like to make a similar road trip. The Pirates were on a road trip to [...]
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More thoughts on the “American Poem”
Posted on June 4, 2007 - Filed Under | 1 Comment
Continuing, casually, to ponder my sense of an “American” poem (viz. Robert’s conclusion on its conceptual irrelevance). I have to say that thinking about / talking about / writing the american poem is thinking about / talking about / writing in relation to weltanschauung. Thus, it is a generic matter as much as [...]
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