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Resentment will attend all of
wretched humanity, shrieking evil-welcoming
leering. --- Hesiod |
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I saw the best minds of my
generation destroyed by madness, starving
hysterical naked. ---
Allen
Ginsberg |
Parascholarly efforts
The first three categories below
include links to items written in the 1980s (with the sole exception of one
composed in 1997 on the occasion of the passing of my mother). At that time I studied poetry and poetry
criticism for the purpose of understanding archaic Greek poetry better, and as a
natural consequence tried my hand at a few lines myself. I make no
claims as to the quality of the results, but this is a personal website and they
are part of who I am or at least was.
I.
Poems proper (in some sense).
Ode to Lisa,
in Memory of Michael Stewart
Thirty-two
anapests for quantum chromodynamics
Variations on
Charles Olson, with Deference to Anaximander and Yājñavalkya
For Rilke (Folk Life
Festival)
To Walt Whitman et
al. (In Memoriam: Edgar J. Beall,
1907-1986)
To Verna
Marsh, July 5, 1909 - November 24, 1997
II. Silloi
According to
the New York Times science report
According to
another New York Times science report
According to
still another New
III. Occasional pieces in
prose
IV.
During the early years of the
21st century I wrote several dozen “letters to the editor” of the
Washington Post, on a number of subjects. It published only one, on
September 11, 2002 (apparently deeming that example acceptable because the paper
was publishing several letters on this day under the banner “remembrance,”
whereas in discussing response to the alleged watershed event a year earlier in
my relatively mild letter I happened to use that word for no particular
reason). Despite this record, I like to think that my submissions,
and similar efforts by other people that the paper considered unsuitable,
contributed to the editorial room’s internal strife on the issue of the Iraq war
in particular that other local media have reported. In any case, the following
is a sampling (also including an e-mail to another section of the paper at the
end).
On certain
animal representations
On Israel and
the Palestinians
On the
Prince Georges County, Maryland police
On
Watergate, or, on the Iraq war III
On “irregularities” by the FBI et
al.
