Our own Michael Robbins has two reviews out this week:  a wickedly hilarious takedown of Robert Hass’s selected poems in the new issue of Poetry magazine, & a less wickedly hilarious ]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/09/01/is-the-yak-smeared-with-the-juice-of-cherries/feed/ 8 http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/09/01/advertisements-for-myself-american-idol-at-narrative/ http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/09/01/advertisements-for-myself-american-idol-at-narrative/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:01:45 +0000 Robert P. Baird http://www.digitalemunction.com/?p=5416 The fall issue of Narrative Magazine includes a pair of excerpts from American Idol, the novel I’ve been writing in fits and starts during this long slow slog through graduate school. The novel tells the story of an American…

This week Harvard University Press is publishing The Heart of William James, a selection of essays edited by my friend Bob Richardson. Bob is the author of a trilogy of tremendous biographies—on Thoreau, Emerson, and ]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/08/30/robert-d-richardson-at-the-second-pass/feed/ 0 http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/08/27/on-jokes-poetry-and-originality-with-special-reference-to-this-week%e2%80%99s-new-yorker-poem/ http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/08/27/on-jokes-poetry-and-originality-with-special-reference-to-this-week%e2%80%99s-new-yorker-poem/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:46:18 +0000 Ange Mlinko http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/08/27/on-jokes-poetry-and-originality-with-special-reference-to-this-week%e2%80%99s-new-yorker-poem/ “The most unusual application of the O death [where is thy sting?] sentence arose out of a naming coincidence. A report on the 1994 Grammys focused on a well-known pop singer. The headline ran: Mockery, where is thy Sting?: Gordon…

Go out into the country.

The spring days which come in mid-winter are among the best of the year.  They never fail to appear in January or early February.

Go into the country now.

Do not wait for Easter.  It

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