Monthly Archives: July 2009

Won’t be posting for 2 weeks…

From Carpal Tun­nel Syn­drome Fact Sheet: Symp­toms usu­ally start grad­u­ally, with fre­quent burn­ing, tin­gling, or itch­ing numb­ness in the palm of the hand and the fin­gers, espe­cially the thumb and the index and mid­dle fin­gers. Some carpal tun­nel suf­fer­ers say their fin­gers feel use­less and swollen, even though lit­tle or no swelling is appar­ent. The …

July 27, 2009 – 10:55 am | By ashok | Posted in personal | Comments (10)

On Human Progress: Thoughts on Kay Ryan’s “Turtle”

Tur­tle (from poetry 180) Kay Ryan Who would be a tur­tle who could help it? A barely mobile hard roll, a four-oared hel­met, She can ill afford the chances she must take In row­ing toward the grasses that she eats. Her track is grace­less, like drag­ging A packing-case places, and almost any slope Defeats her …

July 23, 2009 – 10:54 pm | By ashok | Posted in poetry | Comments (2)

Just wanted to say thanks -

- quite a few of you are help­ing me pro­mote on Stum­ble­upon, Digg, Red­dit and a few other places, and it’s work­ing to dra­matic effect right now. Traf­fic had found new lows this month: one of the days I was in Sacra­mento I got 61 hits total (think about how insult­ing that is as one …

July 21, 2009 – 6:46 am | By ashok | Posted in blogging | Comments (1)

Links, 7/21/09

Don’t touch ‘A Move­able Feast’ (h/t Josh) — one of my favorite books gets a defense for the form it is in. There’s a new edi­tion out that is less than per­fect, to put it mildly (this may require nytimes reg­is­tra­tion — use bug­menot to fix that). More from the nytimes (h/t aldaily.com) — Tom Wolfe …

July 21, 2009 – 2:31 am | By ashok | Posted in links | Comments (0)

A Thought on Stanley Kunitz’s “The Abduction”

The Abduc­tion (from poets.org) Stan­ley Kunitz Some things I do not pro­fess to under­stand, per­haps not want­ing to, includ­ing what­ever it was they did with you or you with them that time­less sum­mer day when you stum­bled out of the wood, dis­tracted, with your white blouse torn and a blood­stain on your skirt. “Do you …

July 20, 2009 – 1:45 am | By ashok | Posted in poetry | Comments (5)