Media Bleeds Through Apertures: Necropastoral, Pornography and Insectoid Psychosis

Wrote a piece over at Montevidayo about "Media Bleeds Through Apertures: Necropastoral, Pornography and Insectoid Psychosis."

Wounding the Viewer: Plath and Arbus

I wrote a post about this subject matter on Montevidayo.

Wounding American Literature

I wrote a post about "Wounding American Poetry," which expands some ideas I brought up in my recent post about Silliman's views of translation.

Joyelle McSweeney on the "necropastoral" of Sylvia Plath

Today on Montevidayo.

Excerpt:

"I’ve started reading through Ariel again, and it’s striking to me the degree to which this text works as necropastoral. The imagery of Ariel continually construes a kind of abeyance, a sojourn or removal to a blank world continually pierced by images of the would-be natural which reveal themselves as artifice and convey Art and Death to the Artist, whose vulnerability to Art’s impulses is pre-registered by her illness, her body as wound."

The Invisibility of the translator: Henry Parland, Ron Silliman and Me

I wrote a post about the invisibility of the translator, Ron Silliman, Henry Parland and my own experiences as a translator on Montevidayo.

Lars Norén

I wrote a post about the early poetry of Swedish playwright Lars Norén.

Sara Stridsberg and the Immorality of Absorption

I have a new post up on the Swedish novelist Sara Stridsberg, Steven Shaviro's critiques of "the gaze" and some other observations about contemporary American poetry.