@PinkoStevens

used to love Proust but living la vie Belacqua/helped me understand I'm probably more of a Kafka

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Carson writes lots of stuff that "lives in the page and keeps readers (inc. me) company over a lifetime," it's just that in her best work her primary units of composition are the book, the sequence, and the essay rather than the individual short lyric poem.
Joseph Massey
@jmasseypoetOct 9
I don’t have much to say about Anne Carson. When I tried to read her poetry years ago, I realized she’s a poet who writes elaborate art-school projects rather than individual poems that live on a page and keep the reader company over a lifetime. She’s a creature of academia.
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Pinko Wallace Stevens@PinkoStevensOct 8
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Also there's a clear anxiety of influence wrt Carson as the person who made great English literature out of deliberately hyper-sparse translations and adaptations of Greco-Roman classics. Wilson is a much more "faithful" translator but she still lives in Carson's stylistic world
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Aeschylus' best play is Macbeth. Sophocles'best play is King Lear. Euripides' best play is Othello Aristophanes best play is, of course, The Birds, but Twelfth Night comes close
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Just reread vol. 1 of WCW's collected and while I don't dislike him I keep getting annoyed he'll never fully commit to just being A.R. Ammons
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One fun thing about Samuel Johnson is that both of these models are operative and in tension throughout the Lives; Shakespeare is the greatest English poet in a "craft" sense but Pope is the technological cutting-edge
Xenocrypt@xenocryptsiteSep 9
So I think sometimes you have a "technological" model of aesthetics ("why watch The Twilight Zone when I could watch all he subsequent works that learned from The Twilight Zone") and other times a "craft" model ("a good clock is a good clock now or in 1501"), and both are right.
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"There are no gods" is a pretty straightforward way to read the mini-arc of Telemachus looking for disguised gods only to be definitively told he won't find any + the reveal of "Athena" as a manifestation of Odysseus' guilty conscience drawn from a specific woman he watched die
Theo Nash@theo_nashJul 27
I’ve spent my share of time defending Wilson as a scholar, but I can’t say quite as much for her film criticism. I don’t know how anyone leaves the theatre believing ‘there are no gods’ just because they weren’t depicted in person.
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"Why is Emily Wilson taking Nolan's Odyssey so personally?" idk, maybe because he put her in it?
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The Nolan hero is a man who feels Guilty because he has lost his Family via injudicious use of his Talent. Now he must overcome his Guilt in order to properly use his Talent to get back to his Family
ergopraxis.bsky.social ⊮@ergo_praxisJul 28
The most astute criticism Wilson levies on Nolan's Odyssey is already there in the title: an uncomplicated man. Nolan's Odysseus does not have a complex psychology, defects or virtues, nor does he get any character development. He is just there to give voice to the film's theme.
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(the Talent can be many things but is reliably a metaphor for directing)
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Anyone surprised by the intensity of Wilson's takedown of Nolan clearly wasn't familiar with her game:
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I'm 30 now that's pretty insane
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Many of the discouragingly drab elements of the production work better in context; we don't look at the boring costumes we look at the monumental focus du jour. Most scenes with no/only incidental dialogue were fairly compelling
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It is still Oppenheimer again, both in its perpetual montage pacing and its thematizing the loss of the world's innocence in war. Worse writing and acting, but better fight scenes.
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Bookstore haul
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Anyone have good recs for English language studies of foreign language poets written to evangelize their work in lieu of adequate translation? Stuff like Carne-Ross' Pindar, Hawkes' A Little Primer of Tu Fu, Cohn's Toward the Poems of Mallarmé, etc.
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New stupidest thing I've been blocked for (relative to prior expectations at least):
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