"The Unwritten History of Prose" By T.R. Hummer

"The Unwritten History of Prose"
By T.R. Hummer

Notice for T. R. Hummer:
T. R. Hummer was born in August 7, 1950, in Noxubee County in Macon, Mississippi. He work in literature and poetry is very extensive. Writing poems and literary essays Hummer stabilize himself as most preeminent American poets today.


Publised in Updated Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, at 7:22 AM ET


.......... … a litel thyng …
....................—Chaucer

The prose of merchants, the prose of ministers,
Pornographers' prose, the prose of Julius Caesar—
Every militant word. Executioners' prose, inspectors' prose,
The dreamy calculation of love letters,
Attorneys' prose, morticians' prose,
The coded prose of spies. One ice storm,
Years back, scribbled its thesis on Ohio.
In another, my father, still alive, incised my name
Backward in rime on the kitchen window.
He stood outside in the world, ice in his eyebrows,
Breathing. My neighbor has no dog run.
My father built one for his brace of English pointers
Who howled their misery in doggy paragraphs
As the storm revised them. I was old enough to read
Three words, and he'd just scraped one of them
In front of his blood-lit face.

……………………………………....The prose of sociologists,
Alchemists' Latin prose, the cookbook prose of chefs,
Memory's watery pages—how to map its geology, its chalky strata,
Volcanic upheavals, sediments of excrement and ash?
Someone lies in a bedroom illuminated by ice-light
As the storm cracks down. On the hearth, a small fire;
On the table, a sheaf of parchment; by the door,
Twitching in sleep, an indeterminate dog.
The man composes in his head. I wol yow telle
A litel thyng in prose, he might be thinking.

Reference: Slate Magazine

Works:

Translation of Light (1976)
The Angelic Orders (1982)
The Passion of the Right-Angled Man (1985)
Lower-Class Heresy (1987) Walt Whitman in Hell: Poems (1996)
Useless Virtues (2001)
The Mechanical Muse
The Muse in the Machine: Essays on Poetry And the Anatomy of the Body Politic (The Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and Craft) April 2006

Reference: http://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/writers/tr-hummer.html

Books:
Walt Whitman in Hell: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)

Notice for Emma Jones

"Paradise"
By Emma Jones

Notice for Emma Jones:

Emma Jones born in Sydney, Australia. She publishes her first collection of poems in Faber & Faber, The Striped World. Jones concluded PhD in English from the University of Cambridge.

See: Emma Jones on BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/7771077.stm.

Listen here: http://www.slate.com/id/2210318/

Published in Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009, at 6:37 AM ET
On Slate Magazine.

Paradise

What you wanted was simple:
a house with a fence and a kind of gulled
light arching up from it to shake in the poplars
or some other brand of European tree
(or was it American?) you'd plant
just for the birds to nest in and so
the crows who'd settle there
could settle like pilgrims.

Darling, all day I've watched the garden make its way
down the road. It stops at the houses
where the lights are on and the hose reel is tidy
and climbs to the windows to look inside
like a child with its eyes of flared rhododendrons
and sunflowers that shutter the wind like bombs
so buttered and brave the sweet peas gallop
and the undergrowths fizz through the fences
and pause at some to shake into asters and weep.

The garden is a mythical beast and a pilgrim.
And when the houses stroll out it eats up
their papers and screens their evangelical dogs.

Barbeque eater,
yankee doodle,
if the garden should leave
where would we age
and park our poodle?

"This is paradise," you said,
a young expansive American saint.
And widened your arms to take it in,
that suburb, spread, with seas in it.

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THE PULITZER PRIZES 2008 in POETRY - Philip Schultz

THE PULITZER PRIZES 2008 in POETRY

Philip Schultz is a prize-winner writer. In 2008 he awarded with Pulitzer for “Failure” (Harcourt). Schultz is a writing and teacher of fiction literature. He founded and direct The Writers Studio (go to: http://www.writerstudio.com/pages/), a school for creative writing. I’m like very much his poems. See below for two picks on the Web publications.

Listen Philip Schultz read “Failure”: click here (http://img.slate.com/media/73/Failure%20by%20Philip%20Schultz.wma)

“Failure”

To pay for my father's funeral
I borrowed money from people
he already owed money to.
One called him a nobody.
No, I said, he was a failure.
You can't remember
a nobody's name, that's why
they're called nobodies.
Failures are unforgettable.
The rabbi who read a stock eulogy
about a man who didn't belong to
or believe in anything
was both a failure and a nobody.
He failed to imagine the son
and wife of the dead man
being shamed by each word.
To understand that not
believing in or belonging to
anything demanded a kind
of faith and buoyancy.
An uncle, counting on his fingers
my father's business failures—
a parking lot that raised geese,
a motel that raffled honeymoons,
a bowling alley with roving mariachis—
failed to love and honor his brother,
who showed him how to whistle
under covers, steal apples
with his right or left hand. Indeed,
my father was comical.
His watches pinched, he tripped
on his pant cuffs and snored
loudly in movies, where
his weariness overcame him
finally. He didn't believe in:
savings insurance newspapers
vegetables good or evil human
frailty history or God.
Our family avoided us,
fearing boils. I left town
but failed to get away.

Reference to “Failure”, Slate Magazine in: http://www.slate.com/id/2164575/



Why
by Philip Schultz
August 27, 2007 in The New Yorker

is this man sitting here weeping;
Why; Restaurants; Birthdays;
Age; Childhood; Baseball is this man sitting here weeping
in this swanky restaurant
on his sixty-first birthday, because
his fear grows stronger each year,
because he’s still the boy running
all out to first base, believing
getting there means everything,
because of the spiders climbing
the sycamore outside his house
this morning, the elegance of
a civilization free of delusion,
because of the boyish faces
of the five dead soldiers on TV,
the stoic curiosity in their eyes,
their belief in the righteousness
of sacrifice, because innocence
is the darkest place in the universe,
because of the Iraqis on their hands
and knees looking for a bloody button,
a bitten fingernail, evidence of
their stolen significance, because
of the primitive architecture
of his dreams, the brutal egoism
of his ignorance, because he believes
in deliverance, the purity of sorrow,
the sanctity of truth, because of
the original human faces of his wife
and two boys smiling at him across
this glittering table, because of
their passion for commemoration,
their certainty that goodness continues,
because of the spiders clinging to
the elegance of each moment, because
getting there still means everything?


Reference to “Why”: The New Yorker in: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2007/08/27/070827po_poem_schultz



For an interview with Philip Schultz (publish in Of(f) Course Journal in 2000 go to: http://www.albany.edu/offcourse/winter00/schultzinterview.html

Information: Pulitzer Prizes enlarges participation of Online-Only Publications.

Information: Pulitzer Prizes enlarges participation of Online-Only Publications.

The PULITZER PRIZES 2009 include in all the categories of journalism prizes entries for Online-Only publications. This represent enlargement of participation for this kind of publication. In the last year the Online-only publication can contest only in two categories. However, in 2008 haven’t restrictions for local publication. In this year the Board decides for restriction for only USA web publication, and weekly.

The Board of The Pulitzer Prizes argues: "This is an important step forward, reflecting our continued commitment to American newspapers as well as our willingness to adapt to the remarkable growth of online journalism,". In another way the announced decisions represent also “the Pulitzer tent and recognize more fully the role of the Web, while underscoring the enduring value of words and of serious reporting.” Said Sig Gissler, administrator do the Prizes.

The winner and finalist of PULITZER 2009 are announces in April 20th, at 3:00pm.

by
C.J

Reference: http://www.pulitzer.org/

How the web is undermining reading

Abstract and Comments for:

How the web is undermining reading From Plato to Guitar Hero, we have always been wary of change - but the internet poses a serious threat to society's ability to read

By Naomi Alderman
www.guardian.co.uk,
Tuesday 20 January 2009 12.00 GMT

Naomi Alderman in this article seems very preoccupy with the impact of the Web in reading. She argues, in like manner TV make a fall in reading habit a long 20th century, now Web can deeply this tendency. Naomi Alderman say: “Recent studies have indicated that online reading tends to break down in the face of ‘texts that require steady focus and linear attention’.” The “recent studies” cited are the Jakob Nielsen, discussed in article of Chronicle Review (reference: http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i04/04b01001.htm ) subscribe for Mark Bauerlein.

I think which Naomi Alderman is exaggerated in her preoccupation. The habit of reading, in my own view, increase within internet. And write too. The phenomenon of exponential increase of quantity of Blog is an aspect of it. The reading/writing process will be deeply transformed in the Web age. And each time more, but this transformation is not a disfiguration of the intellectual powers of people, as seems in Naomi Alderman article. Is a different way of those.

C.M.J.

References: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/20/internet-homer
And http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i04/04b01001.htm.

Literary Magazine – THIS

Literary Magazine – THIS: because everything is political.

THIS is a Canadian Magazine, based on Political and Cultural matters. Good Magazine, we strong recommend. In the last edition (January/February) THIS publish a selection on Fiction and Poetry. John Lavery take “The Bitter Warmth”, a tale. The magazine publish more two poems of Matthew Tierny (The Eclipse Chaser and Admittance) and more two by Suzanne Robertson (Flying and To the Point). In this literary selection the most impact text is Flying by Robertson. I’m very recommend this poem for reading. For those can be confer click in the link below:

Two poems

Poetry by Matthew Tierny
The Eclipse Chaser
Admittance
In : http://www.thismagazine.ca/issues/2008/09/twopoems_mt.php

Two poems

Poetry by Suzanne Robertson
Flying
To the Point
In : http://www.thismagazine.ca/issues/2008/09/twopoems_sr.php

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License: Public Domain in U.S.
Publication Year: 1920
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Pages: 128.

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The Waste Land and others poems

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James Joyce: Ulysse e-Book.

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George Pelecanos Website

George Pelecanos Website


The prizewinner American writer George Pellecanos have a interesting Website: in http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/features/georgepelecanos/ ) Many information about his work and biography can be found on it. The website designer is Jeferson Rabb, famous for your site for The DaVinci Code. However the complexity of The DaVinci Code’s Website the Pellecanos one is very simple and functionality. Very funny things about Pellecanos private life is publish in site. Come on:
http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/features/georgepelecanos/.


George Pelecanos Performance in 25-01-2009
Video on YouTube :

George Pelecanos (1957 D.C. Washington - )

George Pelecanos (1957 D.C. Washington - )

Publish his first book in 1992 (A Firing Offense), since Pelecanos wrote 15 novels. The atmosphere of his novels is like a 1960’s films noir. All stores take place in Washington D.C., and around. But the Washington presented for Pelecano’s novel is not that of White House, is the Washington of real Washingtonians, which of violence, suburbs, blacks, immigrants and prostitution.

Hell to Pay


Soul Circus


Trilogy (com Soul Circus e Hell to Pay):




Referência:
George Pelecanos Website - http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/features/georgepelecanos/

One to read :The Turnaround

How Not to Write a Novel

Abstract:

The Sunday Times review
by Lynne Truss

The teaching of creative writing just entered a whole new era with the publication of How Not to Write a Novel. Heavens, what a joy this book is.


In “How Not to Write a Novel” two young American writers, Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark, aiming identify 200 mistakes made by unpublished fiction writers. The works is make in very funny way picking illustrations examples.

Those are qualified to write this book for yours experience in publishing market. Available and teaching unpublished writers.
Same of yours indication are like there:
“Novels are seldom rejected because the characters are described too well.” “When there is a plan, things cannot go according to it.” “In most novels a pet should have about as high a profile as an armchair.” “Heroes should not masturbate or ogle strangers in the first three chapters.”
For me the book seems like a self-help writer guide and like those I’m not much interested in it. But, who is: “How NOT to Write a Novel” by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark. From the introduction to How Not to Write A Novel:

Dying to get published
"Unpublished authors often cite the case of John Kennedy Toole, who, unable to find a publisher for his novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, took his own life. Thereafter, his mother relentlessly championed the book, which was eventually published to great acclaim and earned him a posthumous Pulitzer prize for fiction.
Yes, we say, that is a strategy, but it is a strategy that demands a remarkable level of commitment from the author's mother, and an even greater commitment from the author. And, of course, it puts a serious crimp in the book tour. But even more to the point, it will work only if you have in fact written a masterpiece that awaits only the further enlightenment of the publishing industry and the reading public to receive the treatment it deserves.
If this is the case, we are no good to you. If there is, however, any chance that your writing could stand some improvement, we can help."

The 50 greatest British writers since 1945 –
n° 1: Philip Larkin


Summary biography:

Philip Larkin born on 9 August, 1922 in Convetry, England. He study in Oxford College in the years of Second World War.

Larkin’s first poems to be published in the Magazine The Listener in 1940, like “A Stone Church Damage By A Bomb” and “Mythological Introduction”. Six years late seems his novel “Jill”, one before “A Girl in Winter” is published. Only in 1950, in a small and particular print Larkin publish a collection of his poems. A book with the a collection of his poems only be published in commercial edition in 1955, under the title “The Less Deceived”, the book receive good critics and begin to foundation his reputation.

In 1965 Larkin is awarded to the prize Queen Gold Medal for Poetry, one year after he published “The Whitsun Weddings”. “High Windows” emerges in 1974, and fixing his reputation as a the greatest poets of English Literature.

James Orwin’s biography text of Larkin affirm: “'Aubade', his last great poem, was published in The Times Literary Supplement in December 1977. If this had been the only poem Larkin had ever written, his place in English poetry would still be secure.”

Certainly the recognition of Larkin geniality came in the last years of his life. Received many prize until his dead in 1985 for a cancer.

A poem for Philip Larkin :

Lambs that learn to walk in snow

When their bleating clouds the air,

Meet a vast unwelcome, know

Nothing but a sunless glare

Newly stumbling to and fro

All they find, outside the fold,

Is a wretched width of cold.

As they wait beside the ewe,

Her fleeces wetly caked, there lies

Hidden round them, waiting too,

Earth's immeasurable surprise.

They could not grasp it if they knew,

What so soon will wake and grow

Utterly unlike the snow.

Reference for the poem and Biography by James L. Orwin cited on Post:
http://www.philiplarkin.com/pom/pomcurrent.html

Abstract: Times 50th Greatest Crime Writers.

Abstract: Times 50th Greatest Crime Writers.

In few day ago TIMES published a list with the 50th major crime writer of ever. In the Firth position is Patricia Highsmith. She is a rule-breaking crime writer. Marcel Berlin’s definition. The Berlin’s reason for the affirmation can be understand in two ways. At firt, in fact, her crime novel is supremely. Her characters are amoral, seducer, and living deeply. Her stores breaking the traditional screenplay of crime novel, generally make for good and tormented cop, fight with yourself and against the crime and the sadist murder still in prison at end. Highsmith novels are quite different. At second, Highsmith is herself rule-breaking.

The creator of Tom Ripley, certainly her most famous character, lived a complex relation with mother, and many homosexual failed relationships. In certain way, Tom Ripley personality expresses same of these factors. Berlin’s critic pointing, the turning point of her novels, the crime emerges suspended of moral judgment, the idea beyond this is: “Any kind of person can murder. Purely circumstances and not a thing to do with temperament. People get so far - and it takes just the least little thing to push them over the brink. Anybody.” Is words of Patricia Highsmith.

Referece: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/global/article3773630.ece


Patricia Higsmith’s Books:

Editorial or What Is and Why The English Literature Mulish Reviewer?

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Editorial or What Is and Why The Mulish English Literature Reviewer?

The The Mulish English Literature Reviewer (MELR) is a macroscopic reviewer of English Literature on the Web. Mulish for given an opinion and, it a precarious, incomplete, tendentiously. How all review. It’s all of What.
Come to Why. I’m a Brazilian. I’m living in Brazil. And “ou dessu” I’m never go to USA or England. But I have Internet and a great curiosity about English literature – and some little erudition. With it I decide make to works; present English Literature to Brazilian and dialogue, in and with, Web English Literature.
I know which many things about this Blog and I still unknown for your reading this lines in front of monitor. However, I can make very little about it now.
Follow this Blog, comment, criticize. I hope no deception you for spend your live read me.
São Carlos - Brazil, 29 January 2009.