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         In the short legged, fit- ful advance, the gurgling and all the minutiae—we have the       classic multitude of feet. To what p...

The lemur-student can see    that an aye-aye is not an angwan-tíbo, potto, or loris. —Marianne Moore, "Four Quartz-Crystal Clocks,...

My article " Marianne Moore's Precision " is in the new issue of Arizona Quarterly .

I mentioned the other day that Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale was making me realize the connection between my research on Berssenbrugge and ...

There comes a point in every academic's life, sooner or later, when various professional bitternesses set in, and one's private self...

I tend to be very reticent about my research on this blog, perhaps due to the universal academic fear that nobody is interested. But I think...

I've just had an article accepted for publication, with minor revisions. It's very exciting.

Some quick notes from today. I went to a very interesting seminar on science studies and modernism this morning. The seminar was run by Anne...

A wordle about my dissertation. I just sent off a manuscript; hurray!

I would like to say that if I hear this one more time I will scream: "Oh, Marianne Moore's precision. So you're talking about h...

* * * I am so very late on this; nonetheless: Saving Salt Publishing: Just One Book Wednesday, May 20, 2009     As many of you will know, Je...

Marianne Moore on Elizabeth Barrett Browning: There was a young lady named Liz Who made writing poems her biz But when she met Bob She gave ...

"In the case of James Joyce as in the case of the zebra, a cross section will not suffice and the complete aspect is bewildering."...

Contractility is a virtue as modesty is a virtue. Snail spotted this morning on the sidewalk on Parker St. I posted grades last night, so su...

Reflecting on the Drucker article mentioned below reminded me of one more instance of a tool working well for some fields and not for others...

A brief addendum, in case anyone was wondering whether mocking a grad student's diss in the NYT could really be problematic. In the las...

Doris Day in Calamity Jane : a woman's touch, indeed. With Miss Moore a word is a word most when it is separated out by science, treated...

Marianne Moore wrote in 1925: In 1854, in a report made by the librarian of The Astor Library, New York City -- we read: "The young fr...

I don't know whether it is still the case that fifth-graders in Newport News routinely visit the Mariners' Museum . I admit that whe...