digital emunction » Religion http://www.digitalemunction.com A website dedicated to literature, politics, life, and anything else worth talking about. Founded in 2006 by Robert P. Baird Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:48:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Just Read the Fucking Book http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/07/15/just-read-the-fucking-book/ http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/07/15/just-read-the-fucking-book/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:10:11 +0000 Michael Robbins http://www.digitalemunction.com/?p=5288 Browsing the poetry section in 57th Street Books today, I discovered that Knopf has placed the following blurb on the back of the paperback edition of Jack Gilbert’s The Dance Most of All:

“The best poems here are valuable bulletins

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]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/07/10/real-taste/feed/ 3 The Rumors of Hip Hop’s Demise Have Been &c. http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/07/07/the-rumors-of-hip-hops-demise-have-been-c/ http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/07/07/the-rumors-of-hip-hops-demise-have-been-c/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:30:09 +0000 Michael Robbins http://www.digitalemunction.com/?p=5269 Look, I don’t have time to do critical justice to Big Boi’s Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, so I’m just going to say that it’s the best album of the year by far & you…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/07/07/the-rumors-of-hip-hops-demise-have-been-c/feed/ 3 I Have Never, Never Kissed a Car Before http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/06/29/i-have-never-never-kissed-a-car-before/ http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/06/29/i-have-never-never-kissed-a-car-before/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:41:54 +0000 Michael Robbins http://www.digitalemunction.com/?p=5214 Just a note to say I have a new poem up at The Morning News, which recently started publishing poems (by the likes of D. A. Powell & Andrea Cohen, no less). “Slider” is from my “bad…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/06/29/i-have-never-never-kissed-a-car-before/feed/ 2 Dancing on Architects in the Village Voice http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/06/15/dancing-on-architects-in-the-village-voice/ http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/06/15/dancing-on-architects-in-the-village-voice/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:30:39 +0000 Michael Robbins http://www.digitalemunction.com/?p=5151 Just a note to say my first record review appears in this week’s Village Voice, which is especially nifty for me, since it was Robert Christgau’s columns in that paper that first taught me what music criticism could be.…

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I recollect
I really lived it, man
—Young Jeezy

Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme—
why are they no help to me now
I want to make
something imagined, not…

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Big Boi, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Sleigh Bells, Treats
 Robyn, Body Talk, Pt. 1
Kelis, Flesh Tones
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