v sad about tree but it could have been so much worse

epic tree removal - J and this made it onto CBS Detroit news about the tornado

thank u.

Kinda!! Fortunately, none of it is alll that bad in the scheme of things. At another level, I walk around nauseated (literally) by what’s happening to people caught up in war and famine and other climate disasters they had no responsibility causing.

thank you.

thank you - me, too! it could have been much worse. it was a tornado i think

rip our beautiful giant spruce, its trunk broken about 10 feet up by the most violent and destructive storm i’ve lived through. it is lying on our roof. fortunately did not destroy our or our neighbor’s house.

thanks to you! I’d not thought of it as a crucifixion until you brought it up

I think so a bit. But the fact that she’s the nesting mother makes it slightly different - although Hopkins somewhat imagined Christ as brooding over the nest I think, didn’t he?

Yes-soo sad. Here’s a counterpose to that grim post— great-horned owl mother and owlet spied on evening walk - sound on.

not sure why

sadly so

in the center of the lattice is a bird nest with a robin leaning with closed eyes. the mama died on her nest. They’ve nested there for two years…

sad sad bad

redeemed!

my car dealership only lets you talk to an AI assistant now and I’m wild with rage and sorrow about it

Congratulations!

this is v cool

by which he meant, we can’t assume that art will just persist absent support for it - artists need support and why shouldn’t governments value art and support artists (as Ireland now does).

“Audience,” by Derrick Austin,
from his new book, _This Elegance_

a little dated (and i’m in poetics not narrative theory) but i remember a little helpful rundown of non-Western narrative theory in “Towards a Transnational Turn in Narrative Theory: “ by Susan Stanford Friedman.” in Narrative, 2011. Her notes are useful.

ah ok! will watch! (tho maybe going to see verdi’s requiem — oh dear— wwfrankdo??)

you’re most welcome - the reading sounds fun - i’ll be two days late to NYC alas

they (the Network) are also planning a summer conference in honor of his centenary- in Edinburgh in July, I believe!

….because no matter what happens, a few artists starving in garrets will see to it that art does not die.”

—Holger Cahill (director of Fed. Arts Project), “New Directions in American Art” 1936

Perhaps we need a Fed. Humanities Project

“There is a theory that art always somehow takes care of itself, as if it were a
rootless plant feeding upon itself in sequestered places, that it is not necessary for organized society to do
anything [for it]…

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Behind Our Backs is out!

"In this brilliant study of social forms, De'Ath shows how a surprisingly speculative strain of contemporary poetry explores unseen connections between the domination of value and the process of feminization."
—Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago

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Behind Our Backs | Stanford University Press In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by capital's impersonal compulsions – by what happens "behind our backs." Challenging...

ooh this looks really interesting and I believe just came out : _Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction_, Amy De’Ath, in the Post45 series from Stanford U. Press

www.sup.org/books/litera...