I’m glad to be back to blogging. It helps ease the pressure. I’ve always been aware of this but my tendency to self-censor keeps me from writing in public places. Time restraints don’t help either. Although, there’s never enough time

Archive of the Unspoken

Some scholarly thoughts on Le Tigre. Actually, this is an excerpt from a longer piece on queer trauma (*all* copyright rules apply here). What ever happened to Le Tigre anyway?? I miss them. From the Desk of Mr. Lady, an

“On burning ground…”

“You write — don’t you? — because you’re more alive when you write. You write because in black and white on the page, on a computer screen, in a notebook, in pencil or pen, even on a old-fashioned typewriter, you

Speaking the unspeakable: Notes on Adorno & Trauma

To prepare some notes on Adorno’s famous injunction “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric” for teaching I went to Susan Gubar’s book Poetry After Auschwitz. I knew she derived her title in response to Adorno’s injunction so I was