December 2009 – Page 2

December 20, 2009

Humpback Whalesongs

According to the British paper The Telegraph: “These images may look like just pretty patterns, but they are visual representations of songs sung by whales and dolphins.” The sounds were recorded by American engineer...

Literature / Poetics / Poetry / Translation

December 18, 2009

Just out: Nicole Brossard by Nicole Brossard

Just published by the University of California Press in the Poets for the Millennium series: Nicole Brossard Selections by Nicole Brossard Introduction by Jennifer Moxley Poets for the Millennium, 7 A Simpson Book in...

Human rights / Middle East / Palestine / Palestinian people / West Bank

December 16, 2009

Cantarow: Resistance in Bethlehem's Villages

Below, the opening paragraphs of Ellen Cantarow’s Counterpunch article; you can read the full version here. December 15, 2009 Heroism in a Vanishing Landscape Resistance in Bethlehem’s Villages By ELLEN CANTAROW Christmas is coming....

Benefit Auction / Book Reviews

December 15, 2009

Rain Taxi Benefit Auction

RAIN TAXI’S BENEFIT AUCTION Support Rain Taxi and get cool stuff at the same time! Our annual fundraising auction contains a multitude of items sure to please book lovers, many of which were donated...

Poetry / Poetry readings

December 14, 2009

Dave Brinks Reading @ Zebulon

Bernadette Mayer, Jamey Jones & Dave Brinks read at Zebulon in the Brooklyn Rail Poetry Series last Monday. I only got my recorder up close enough to the reader for the last of the...

Literature / Poetry

December 13, 2009

Kenneth Irby: The Intent On

Kenneth Irby THE INTENT ON Collected Poems, 1962- 2006 672 pages; hardcover; gorgeous Thorpe Feidt painting on cover; excellently designed by Jonathan Greene; $40 from North Atlantic Books This is a book I have...

Air pollution / Antarctic Ice / Arctic Ice / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas / Permafrost

December 12, 2009

How Stable is the Contemporary Environment?

Via the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: Tipping Elements in the Earth System: How Stable is the Contemporary Environment? 12/08/2009 – A Special Feature of the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences”...

Middle East / Palestine

December 11, 2009

Another EU policy statement will not stop Israel's colonization

With our political eyes and ears on Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech and the notion of a “just” and/or necessary “war,” it seems a good moment to bring back to mind another pseudo...

Literature

December 10, 2009

Herta Müller's Nobel Lecture

Here is the opening of Herta Müller — the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature —’s acceptance speech. You can read the whole lecture here. December 7, 2009 Every word knows something of a vicious...

Arab Culture / Book Reviews / Intellectuals / Literature / Palestine / Palestinian people / Poetics / Poetry / West Bank

December 9, 2009

George Fragopoulos On Mahmoud Darwish

One of the better essays on the work of Mahmoud Darwish in this country was recently published in The Quarterly Conversation on-line magazine. I am reproducing a section of the essay below; you can...