tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910291709965283166.post7694141583604053167..comments2024-01-14T12:04:49.488-05:00Comments on Behind the Lines: Poetry, War, & Peacemaking: Arab American Writing and War, the AWP panel 2008Philip Metreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05449159681282927289noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910291709965283166.post-22649825560050774212008-02-15T07:40:00.000-05:002008-02-15T07:40:00.000-05:00From the Sonic Youth song database:"Watt here, I'm...From the Sonic Youth song database:<BR/><BR/>"Watt here, I'm downstairs in this window.. yr uh, punk phone booth.. Thurston, Watt.. Thurston.. I think it's 10:30.. we're callin' from Providence, Rhode Island. Did you find your sh**? You gotta watch the mota, Thurston.. Yr f***** memory just goes out the window. We couldn't find it in the van at all, we were wondering if you looked in that trash can.. when we threw out that trash, man.. with the bag in yr hand, did you dump it? Call later, bye."<BR/><BR/>Based on my hearing of it I would change "window" to "winda." But that's just me.Chaerephonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09560454800266555074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910291709965283166.post-67090429535847114942008-02-13T13:09:00.000-05:002008-02-13T13:09:00.000-05:00Tyrone, sounds like a great class. I don't know t...Tyrone, sounds like a great class. I don't know that book, Snow Sensitive Skin...I need to check it out! And hope to catch up with you soon.Philip Metreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05449159681282927289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910291709965283166.post-17283823590819456922008-02-12T14:09:00.000-05:002008-02-12T14:09:00.000-05:00Phillip,Saw you briefly at AWP from afar but the c...Phillip,<BR/><BR/>Saw you briefly at AWP from afar but the crowds intervened...sounds like a great--and necessary--panel. Have you read Rob Halper's and Taylor Brady's Snow Sensitive Skin (Atticus/Finch)? Great book engaging the 2006 Israeili-Lebanon war...I'm teaching a seminar this semester called "War poetry" (yes, all poetry written under the conditions of war)--we've read Mandelshtam, Darwish--next up (tomorrow) is Ginsberg, then Duncan, H.D., Elrick, Arigo...<BR/><BR/>Tyrone WilliamsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910291709965283166.post-57750768103137978592008-02-11T19:24:00.000-05:002008-02-11T19:24:00.000-05:00Thanks, Providence. By the way, DAYDREAM NATION i...Thanks, Providence. By the way, DAYDREAM NATION is of course a favorite of mine...once, all my friends lay about for an afternoon, with the dusk coming on, listening to the whole of that album. Transcedence. Spirit/desire. <BR/><BR/>But can you suss out what Mike Watt says in his phone message about Thurston and his missing weed? Did he ever find it?Philip Metreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05449159681282927289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910291709965283166.post-16466112568379159452008-02-11T17:01:00.000-05:002008-02-11T17:01:00.000-05:00This sounds like an excellent panel, well beyond t...This sounds like an excellent panel, well beyond the weird generalities most seem devised to entertain. And I'm talking not only AWP, but MLA, MSA, etc. I greatly appreciate the report!Providencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15109740673270128370noreply@blogger.com