on John Kinsella on J. H. Prynne, briefly.

Is attempting much, or being accused of it, simply for the forced sophistication of doing it, too much to ask for? Regard this excerpt from John Kinsella on J. H. Prynne: “It is a strong example of the Prynne lyric in which tensions between external social, political, and economic forces and interior, personal, emotive, and reflective [...]

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Farnsworth fills the hours with flowery lang…

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703766704576009540219126236.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#articleTabs%3Dcomments New from the publisher Godine is the new manifesto of communication. If only we would all expound as if we were classically educated. Besides, I’m not. Maybe an autodidact, but never conceived of the possibleness of the classical rigors.  This review is interesting for the tidbits that it extracts. It is almost a full-length [...]

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