Micah Towery

Google Translates Poetry

by Micah Towery December 5, 2011 Poetry and Poetics
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Meta-lord of the cloud-lords of meta of!

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Why E-books are not Books (and will probably change publishing)

by Micah Towery October 24, 2011 Society
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Until now, many publishers have treated e-books as an extension of the book: hardcover, paperback, e-book. It’s not; it’s an entirely different medium.

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The Solipsist in Purgatory: Jollimore’s AT LAKE SCUCOG

by Micah Towery August 19, 2011 Philosophy
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It’s always a relief to me when I see a book published by somebody outside the “poetry ghetto.”

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Tom Sleigh, Anthropologist

by Micah Towery June 29, 2011 Poetry and Poetics
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Formality, in this case, allows Sleigh to achieve a reflexivity and self-awareness without the cloying injections that deliberately remind the reader of the existence of the poet.

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Translating Horace: Ode i.5

by Micah Towery April 12, 2011 Poetry and Poetics
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Horace is just too good a craftsman for a translation to do him any ultimate justice. Yet I believe translators hope for a sort of “good will” that can exist between between themselves and the poet.

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Kenneth Burke: Do you Eros into Logos? (with a note on Tu Fu)

by Micah Towery March 18, 2011 Poetry and Poetics
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Poets who write for self-expression write awful poetry. They don’t seek advice but affirmation.

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How Tu Fu Works

by Micah Towery March 11, 2011 Aesthetics
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We perceive a break between images and feeling. But perhaps this break is artificial. We acknowledge that images can evoke feelings, perhaps that there is an “objective correlative” that can reliably evoke feelings. But perhaps what is being suggested here is that the category break is weaker than we think. The image (object) is already interpreted: “values are the way we see things.”

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Some Notes on Translations of Horace

by Micah Towery February 7, 2011 Poetry and Poetics
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If you are a poet writing in English, you carry Horace in your own voice.

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THEthe Poetry: 2010 Year in Review

by Micah Towery December 31, 2010 TheThe Poetry Blog
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All answers, of course, are functions of the question, so…take this list with a grain of salt.

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Civil Rights Moonwalk: Michael Jackson, Armond White, and Democracy

by Micah Towery December 3, 2010 Film and TV
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A focus on the human person allows White to cut right to the heart of cultural issues without getting lost or tossed around in the media firestorms that accompany cultural events.

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