actually maybe I will. I've been buying single volumes of Geo Hill 2nd-hand lately - cheaper since the collected.
― woof, Friday, 7 March 2014 11:19 (ten years ago) link
interesting. if you should decide any of them are run-don't-walk let me know and i will set up some kind of lever and axle system with which to heave the collected onto some sort of lectern for necessary physical support and prise it open to the relevant section
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Friday, 7 March 2014 11:41 (ten years ago) link
i just this week ordered a single louise gluck instead of all of the louise gluck under one cover. i feel very glad of that.
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Friday, 7 March 2014 11:42 (ten years ago) link
we should start a Hill thread. Maybe he'll show up too.
― woof, Friday, 7 March 2014 11:49 (ten years ago) link
actually, I haven't seen that collected Hill about – does it go full on with the apparatus?
(I don't know why the thought of lots of notes at the back depresses me. Maybe it's because Hill feels a bit too much like a poet born to be annotated)
― woof, Friday, 7 March 2014 13:04 (ten years ago) link
i literally haven't opened the thing. it feels a little intimidating.
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Friday, 7 March 2014 14:00 (ten years ago) link
I always used to like that he was a poet with a tiny collected. You could take it anywhere.
― woof, Friday, 7 March 2014 14:24 (ten years ago) link
I'm reviewing the collected Hill for Poetry. Thing is HUGE. No notes, just nearly 1000 pages of poems—including no fewer than FOUR new books. I love Hill, but I'll stick w/ my nice portable Penguin UK ed. of the Selected.
My being here should in no way preclude anyone's saying anything about my work, to answer something said above. Me. My work. See? Two separate things. Not really, but I wouldn't argue w/ anyone's taste—no one's poetry's for everyone.
― murk, Friday, 7 March 2014 21:29 (ten years ago) link
Also: I reviewed Glück's collected for the LARB, but rereading it recently I felt I was overgenerous. Meadowlands is the shit.
― murk, Friday, 7 March 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
Been digitally carrying around Jack Gilbert's medium-hefty Collected Poems for the past month.
― That's So (Eazy), Friday, 7 March 2014 23:01 (ten years ago) link
I am actually kind of tempted to order the smaller Hill, or at least to hope to find it, as a way of delaying opening 'Broken Hierarchies' again. Odd that both of the books I'm most putting off reading right now look like they're written by Santa Clauses gone to seed.
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Saturday, 8 March 2014 09:44 (ten years ago) link
The American ed. is the same, just not as compact & attractive, in my view, but still portable:
http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Poems-Geoffrey-Hill/dp/0300164300/ref=sr_1_2_title_1_pap?ie=UTF8&qid=1394382467&sr=8-2&keywords=geoffrey+hill
― murk, Sunday, 9 March 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
I just read Colin Burrow's review of Broken Hierarchies in the lrb, and it is not a terrible piece of work but I do find it dismal or circular or something when historically minded eng lit dons claim Hill as a great poet.
Four new volumes. I'm not going near it. going to reread Mercian Hymns instead.
― woof, Thursday, 13 March 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
('I liked that,' said Offa, 'sing it again.')
― woof, Thursday, 13 March 2014 14:23 (ten years ago) link
so
https://twitter.com/alienvsrobbins/status/473826291507277824
has 'otm' penetrated wider public consciousness and i hadn't noticed or
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
hey murk how far from the end of broken hierarchies are you now
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:13 (nine years ago) link
have you started it?
― woof, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
no judgement I'm not exactly tearing through that Dorn.
― woof, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
i read mercian hymns and three other pages selected at random
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, June 3, 2014 10:08 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=otm
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
had no idea! thought it was ilx specific.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
did click through tho on the money is like 5th down w 4 votes
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
1 otmOther Than Mexicans A term used by US Border Patrol agents when catching illegal aliens.What a night last night! We caught 250 people 23 of them were OTMsby abula February 29, 2004 58 34
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
how ironic
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/07/atheists_the_origin_of_the_species_by_nick_spencer_reviewed.single.html
3,200 comments
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 06:16 (nine years ago) link
enjoyed that but i am not going near those comments
― woof, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 09:20 (nine years ago) link
gotta admit i've really come around on this guy and this book
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
There once was a rapping tomato,That's right, a rapping tomato,And he rapped all day,From April til May,and also, guess what? it was me.
― thomp, Saturday, June 9, 2012 6:50 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
also this is hilarious
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
Michael Robbins@alienvsrobbinsAnyone interested in buying my 2011 32" LG LCD flat-screen HDTV? Great shape. Will let it go cheap if you transport from Crown Heights.
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 August 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
B-)
http://i.imgur.com/7UlScn2.png
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 August 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
yo did you guys see 'country music' in the nyer last month, i thought it was p fuckin lovely
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/07/lifeguard-2
God keep Carl Perkins warmand Jesus Christ erasemy name from all the files inthe county’s database.The dog that bit my legthe night I left the state,Lord won’t you let hisvaccines be up to date.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 11 August 2014 02:02 (nine years ago) link
Thanks, but there's a glitch on the NYer's website. That poem is in quatrains. All stanza breaks have disappeared from poems on their site, which is really annoying. Here's Shannon McArdle's version, icyi:
http://michaelrobbinspoet.tumblr.com/post/94073831275/shannon-mcardle-formerly-of-the-mendoza-line-one
― murk, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
sick! (wont play for me tho)
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
hm, it don't work. well, here it is on shannon's blog:
http://www.shannonmcardlemusic.com/blog/2014/8/12/god-bless-michael-robbins.html
did anyone else love the mendoza line as much as i did?
― murk, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 04:10 (nine years ago) link
i am a fan
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 04:22 (nine years ago) link
lmao i both can can't believe there's an ilx thread about this dude
one of the worst writers and people
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
i agree since he unfollowed me on twitter
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
he was an incredible asshole on a message board i was on circa 2010-2011? right around the time "alien v predator" hit the new yorker. that poem is ok, but dude's essays truly reveal the total nothing going on behind his eyes
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
I think he posted here a few times. He’s a metal fan. I saw his essay collection in the bookstore the other day. Blurbed by Elif Batuman.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
He posts upthread a few times.
― woof, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 18:01 (five years ago) link
i'm pretty sure he's aware of how much i hate his work
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link
yeah this dude is like nails on a chalkboard for me
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 7 March 2019 07:49 (five years ago) link