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On Exile

nobody@vox.com(Tom Mandel) — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:54:03 -0400

Profesora Loca comments on the resonance of my last post with one's increasing sense of exile in the USA. You must be younger than I; in my generation we were internal exiles and *then* we got Reagan! Exile is a deep theme, of course. In Psalm 13...

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Edward Said and Constantine Cavafy

nobody@vox.com(Tom Mandel) — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:33:10 -0400

I just finished Edward Said's posthumous book on Late Style in literature and music. As always, it is brilliant and highly recommendable. Poignant in being a work drafted as he was dying (and finalized by a friend - tho all the writing is Said'...

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I've been correcting proofs...

nobody@vox.com(Tom Mandel) — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:37:38 -0400

A new book of mine will come out this Fall from Atelos. I have been correcting proofs. It's been interesting and rewarding to see this work in retrospect. A project on the back burner is a volume of Selected Poems -- it's been about time for that...

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Christine Axsmith and the CIA

nobody@vox.com(Tom Mandel) — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:44:10 -0400

Read about Christine's case here. A CIA contractor, she was fired because her top secret, intelligence-community-only blog commented positively on the CIA's decision to join the rest of the US government in according Geneva Convention rights to i...

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Slide is nice

nobody@vox.com(Tom Mandel) — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:38:54 -0400

I am playing a bit with Slide - it's nice. Wish I could compose in html here, and include a slide show, but Vox doesn't let you do that -- why? Take a look at it at http://www.tommandel.com/blog and tell me what you think.

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In Search of Memory

nobody@vox.com(Tom Mandel) — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:57:09 -0400

In Search of Memory is the autobiography of a Nobel Prize winning scientist, one of the creators of neuro science. It tells the story of his life but also, and especially, of his life-long work as scientist exploring the brain's mechanisms of m...

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Mumbai help

nobody@vox.com(Tom Mandel) — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:04:19 -0400

Via Howard Greenstein: In case you were wondering how bloggers in India responded to the Terror attacks there. http://mumbaihelp.blogspot.com/

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Old friends

nobody@vox.com(Tom Mandel) — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:00:52 -0400

Spent yesterday in DC where I hung out with my friend Doug Lang, a wonderful and alas mostly unknown (because he doesn't publish much - but here is a wonderful sestina by Doug) Welsh/American poet, and with my old friend George Lakoff, who was in...

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Little Noe Valley recollection skeleton

nobody@vox.com(Tom Mandel) — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:53:29 -0400

Elsewhere in the neighborhood, Shannon Clark writes about moving into his new place in SF's Noe Valley. I lived in SF from '73-92. The poetry scene (my scene) was pretty active in Noe Valley in the early years, as it was then a cheap place to li...

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A cache...

nobody@vox.com(Tom Mandel) — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:59:50 -0400

I just found a wonderful cache of 35mm slides from the '60s (!!) and some from the early '80s. gotta drag out that film scanner and get 'em in here! the '60s slides are of a world that really doesn't exist at all any more - mostly on the street i...

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