Nomadics Blog

Heidegger's Hütte

Fascinating book in the mail yesterday from MIT press: Adam Sharr’s monograph Heidegger’s Hut (foreword by Simon Sadler; prologue by Andrew Benjamin). I have long quarrelled with myself, commentators & other translators if in...

Anita O'Day

ANITA O’DAY October 18, 1919-November 23, 2006 For more info visit the Anita O’Day site.

Talkin' Turkey

Check Geoffrey Gatza’s BlazeVox’s Thanksgiving 2006 Menu Poem :Guest of Honor John Ashbery * * * & for a classic Thanksgiving Greetinghere’s William Burroughs’s version * * * & now ino the cold backyard...

Jürgen Habermas on immigration in Europe

An interesting article, translated into English, by Jürgen Habermas on the problem exercising Europe these days (cf. Belgium’s current anti-immigration moves spearheaded by the resurgence of their old Flemish fascist party). Thanks for the...

Oakley Hall III in Albany

News from The NYS Writers Institute Writers Institute, Albany Center Galleries, and Friends of the Albany Public Library Sponsor Appearance by Author and Playwright Oakley Hall III ALBANY, NY — (11/09/2006; 1015)(EIS) — The...

Another ABC of Reading

Just back from what turned out to be a rather pleasurable week on the road — on which more, later, after the hectic last teaching & prep for Thanksgiving are done — but here,...

Goran Sonnevi gets Nordic Prize

I’ll be on the road for the rest of the week & probably won’t get around to post. The article below on Swedish poet Sonnevi is taken from the Danish Norden magazine & appeared...

Joris @ Harvard

The Harvard Advocate presents: Poetry Reading by Pierre Joris Wednesday November 15th, 7 P.M. 21 South Street, Cambridge, MA * * * And on the followig day, also open to the public: The Department...

Meanwhile, let's not forget Palestine…

… where things are not improving, to say the least. Unhappily experience has shown that even when the Democrats are in power in this country, there hasn’t been any noticeable change in relation to...