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Ingmar Bergman directed Smiles of a Summer Night and Fanny and Alexander, among other films. (“You must see The Virgin Spring!” a friend pleads.) But so purely do these two...

John Wieners's A Book of Prophecies is brand new from Bootstrap Press, and only exists for general consumption because the young poet Michael Carr found this unpublished journal in the...

Christian Bök: Postmodern life has utterly recoded the avant-garde demand for radical newness. Innovation in art no longer differs from the kind of manufactured obsolescence that has come to justify...

Immanence is so much cooler than mortality.

I recently gave a lecture recently to a group of poetry MFAs on uncreative writing, appropriation, information management and unoriginality. During the Q&A, a student declaimed, "C'mon, man, be real....

Lately, so many lives I know have been strained by what have become ordinary tragedies—fatal accidents, sudden deaths, collapsing marriages, unexpected illness, prison, unemployment, crippling depression and it goes on...

Recently reflecting rather gleefully on the second half of my first century, I felt exactly one twinge of regret. The Motown era is over. Of course, it's been over for...

Remember: he was a sonarsman on a destroyer!* It's hard not to get on my high horse about the "frivolous," a pejorative some poets throw at others from the shelter of...

The 365 Days Project, Part 2 (2007) UbuWeb is pleased to be co-hosting and archiving the second installment of Otis Fodder's magnificent 365 Days Project. The first...

This villain, who puts words together with no intention of stating, hoping, praying, or persuading ... only imagining, only creating ... is to many immoral, certainly frivolous, a trivial person...