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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Virtual Grub Street Contributor: Jared Carter.
Items at Virtual Grub Street by/about Jared Carter:
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Poetry Book Review Index.
Laura Kasischke's latest poetry collection, Lilies Without, offers unsettling charms. [Go to the Review>>>]
ARMED WITH VERSE. Reviews of The Baghdad Blues, Sinan Antoon (Harbor Mountain Press), The War Works Hard, Dunya Mikhail. trans. by Elizabeth Winslow (New Directions Publishing) and Here, Bullet, Brian Turner (Alice James Books).
With recent collections of war poetry in his bag, an ex-soldier returns to Afghanistan. [Go to the Review>>>]
THEY TELL THE TRUTH, BUT TELL IT SLANT. Reviews of Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera, by Anne Carson (Alfred A. Knopf) and Scar Tissue, by Charles Wright (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Poets Anne Carson and Charles Wright revise and refresh the usual ways of seeing the world. [Go to the Review>>>]
GHOSTS, SEX, AND PHYSICS: Devin Johnston & Pattiann Rogers. Reviews of Aversions, by Devin Johnston (Omnidawn) and Firekeeper: Selected Poems, by Pattiann Rogers (Milkweed Editions).
In poem after poem Johnston turns away from the world at hand and moves into a kind of hushed borderland, even as he redirects our attention to the here and now. Like the filmmaker Stan Brakhage, to whom he pays homage, this poet can't get enough of those seemingly mundane spots in time when some subtle presence arrives, thrumming in over the wires. [Go to the Review>>>]
GHOSTS, SEX, PHYSICS: J.D. McClatchy & Anne Stevenson. Reviews of Poets of the Civil War, ed. by J.D. McClatchy (The Library of America) and Poems 1955-2005, by Anne Stevenson (Dufour Editions).
What makes this collection of Civil War poets so valuable is the power with which it disrupts that trend, corroborating William Faulkner's claim that "The past is not dead. It is not even past." [Go the the review>>>]
Moxie and Dreams by D. H. Tracy. Feminine Gospels, by Carol Ann Duffy. Faber and Faber, 2005, and Burnt Island, by D. Nurkse, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
I gather Carol Ann Duffy is the most popular poet in the UK, and the American publication of her seventh (adult) collection may be an opportunity to extend her empire. It could happen: Duffy's work is so rich that it can't help but be thoroughly of the place it was written in, but her consistent moxie, her affable rambunctiousness,... [Go to the Review>>>]
The Cosmic IPresent Company by W. S. Merwin
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2005.
140 Pages. $22.00 cloth. ISBN 1556592272.
Mere months after Copper Canyon Press has released Migration, W. S. Merwin's selected poems (and recent winner of the 2005 National Book Award for Poetry), the volume is incomplete.... [Go to Review>>>]
True Stone and Epitaph: the Poetry of Pablo Neruda.
by Gilbert Wesley Purdy.
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems, Mark Eisner, Ed.
San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 2004. 222 pages
ISBN 0-87286-428-6
The year 2004 is the centennial of the birth of the poet Pablo Neruda. As a result, the already considerable amount of work published annually by and about the poet has increased exponentially. City Lights' 100th birthday gift is The Essential Neruda, a selection of poems, edited by Mark Eisner, a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Center for Latin American Studies. [Go to the review>>>]
Pierce Butler, Fanny Kemble, et al.
by Gilbert Wesley Purdy.
The Weeping Time: Elegy in Three Voices by Christopher Conlon.
Washington, D.C.: Argonne House Press, 2004.
138 pp. $19.95 paper. ISBN 1-887641-18-1.
In March of 1859, Pierce Butler, a Philadelphian, wealthy by virtue of two plantations in Georgia, auctioned some 430 of his slaves in one of the largest such sales in American history. That auction became known as 'The Weeping Time'. The poet Christopher Conlon memorializes that day with a book of poems bearing the same name. Butler is of further historical interest by virtue of his rocky marriage to the famous English actress, Fanny Kemble,... [Go to the Review>>>]
A Word Association Test
by Gilbert Wesley Purdy.
Words Brushed by Music ed. by John T. Irwin.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
200 pp. $12.95 paper. ISBN 0-8018-8029-7. $27.50
hardcover. ISBN 0-8018-8028-9.
In 1979, while the poetry world as a whole was marching with ever greater determination towards quote-unquote free verse and one or another variation of anti-poetry, Johns Hopkins University Press staked out its own territory. Its new Poetry Series would provide a haven for poets who had chosen to write the only truly alternative poetry that remained: a poetry which stayed connected to the tradition of the craft.... [Go to the Review>>>]
The Way of Mrs. Wei.
The Tao of Mrs. Wei by Hilary Tham
Washington, D.C.: The Bunny and Crocodile Press, 2003
...how different the world has become.
Mortal Arguments by Sue Sinclair.
London, Ontario: Brick Books, 2003.
-and-Secrets of Weather and Hope by Sue Sinclair
London, Ontario: Brick Books, 2001.
Prima Materia.
The Feast: Prose Poem Sequences by Walter Bargen.
Kansas City: BkMk Press, 2004.
The Eye of the Beholder.
eye: poems and retina prints by Elizabeth Goldring.
Kansas City: BkMk Press, 2002.
The Vulgar Tongue.
Churlsgrace by William Hathaway.
Gainsville: University of Florida Press, 1992.
Off-Site Reviews:
Fruitful Clutterby Gilbert Wesley Purdy.
In the Dark by Ruth Stone.
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2004.
128 pages pp. $22.00 paper. ISBN 1-55659-210-8.
After her husband committed suicide in 1959, Ruth Stone moved into the house they had just purchased in Goshen, Vermont. It had been intended as a sanctuary in which the two would find the peace and serenity to write, a place to get away from the New York literary scene. She brought up their three daughters there. Some 46 years later she remains in the house, nearly deaf and all but blind. [Read entire review>>>]
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Poetry Foundation Syndicate Column Index
Why Stevie Smith is the right poet for our times.
30. Desire to Burn.
Did his misreading of a poem contribute to Kurt Cobain's demise?
29. Put On That Party-Crashing Dress.
28. Armed with Verse.
27. Fables and Foibles.
Reviews of Dear Ghosts, by Tess Gallagher (Graywolf Press) and Swithering, by Robin Robertson (Harcourt).
26. Seriously Playful.
A review of Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems, by John Ashbery (Ecco Press).
25. Over the Moon.
A review of Sleeping With the Moon, Colleen J. McElroy (University of Illinois Press).
24. The War of Art.
A review of War and the Iliad, by Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff with an essay by Hermann Broch. Tr. by Mary McCarthy. Introd. by Christopher Benfey (New York Review Books).
23. Close -- But Not Too Close -- Observation.
Reviews of Burn the Field, by Amy Beeder (Carnegie Mellon University Press) and Riding Westward, by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
22. They Tell the Truth But Tell It Slant.
21. Translating Poetry Into Poetry. (Interview)
C. K. Williams on becoming a poet, and how he creates English versions of ancient Greek dramas--without knowing any Greek.
20. Thrills and Chills and Home Movies.
Reviews of Strong Is Your Hold, by Galway Kinnell (Houghton Mifflin) and Interrogation Palace, by David Wojahn (University of Pittsburgh Press).
19. Never Far from a Breakdown.
A Review of Collected Poems: With Notes Toward the Memoirs, by Djuna Barnes. Ed. by Phillip Herring and Osias Stutman (University of Wisconsin Press).
18. A Psalm? How So?
"The tension between the attempt to mean and the routine failure to entirely mean": the limits of human language and worship in George Oppen's "Psalm."
17. Nature Poems in a Post-Natural Age. (Interview)
Poet Gary Snyder thinks the landscape of contemporary poetry should include wildflowers . . . and highway fast food joints.
16. Herbert Sucks. Donne is a Pimp.
Why high school students make great poetry critics.
15. Writing on the Wall.
Scholars and poets around the world consider dissident poet Huang Xiang the Whitman of China, but his work is still banned there.
14. No Personal History Here.
Eleanor Wilner "gets out of the way" of her poetry.
13. John Donne is Hot.
"The Sun Rising" is so romantic it will burn your eyes.
12. Barnes on Fire.
Hilarious and pious, Dick Barnes is essential to poetry's future.
11. The Inner Life and the Inner City.
The kaleidoscopic poetry of Kay Ryan and Major Jackson.
10. The Poet of Green Bananas and Bacalao. (Interview)
How a plate of food reminds Victor Hernández Cruz of history.
9. The Poet and the Rock Band.
John Berryman's ghost makes cameo appearances on the Hold Steady's new album.
8. GHOSTS, SEX, AND PHYSICS: Devin Johnston & Pattiann Rogers.
Reviews of Aversions, by Devin Johnston (Omnidawn) and Firekeeper: Selected Poems, by Pattiann Rogers (Milkweed Editions).
7. THE GARDEN OF MEMORY
Pulitzer-prize winning poet Lisel Mueller's gentle, steady voice was shaped by a harsh history.
6. GHOSTS, SEX, PHYSICS: J.D. McClatchy & Anne Stevenson.
Reviews of Poets of the Civil War, ed. by J.D. McClatchy (The Library of America) and Poems 1955-2005, by Anne Stevenson (Dufour Editions).
5. In Praise of Rareness.
4. HE'S OUR SHAKESPEARE
So why is America ambivalent about Whitman?
3. MOXIE AND DREAMS: Carol Ann Duffy and D. Nurkse.
Reviews of Feminine Gospels, by Carol Ann Duffy (Faber and Faber) and Burnt Island, by D. Nurkse (Alfred A. Knopf).
2. Plath at 75.
The legacy of the poet who died at 30.
1. The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks Essential Enough?
Review of The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks. Ed. by Elizabeth Alexander (Library of America).
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Thomas Gray Page
Thomas Gray (December 26, 1716 - July 30, 1771)Poetry:
- "The Bard. A Pindaric Ode" Annotated version (The Thomas Gray Archive, University of Oxford);
- "Elegy in St St Stephen's Churchyard" by , a parody of Gray's Elegy (BBC);
- "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (Wikipedia);
- "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" Annotated version (The Thomas Gray Archive, University of Oxford);
- "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" Annotated with a commentary by Ian Lancashire (University of Toronto);
- "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" Annotated version (The Thomas Gray Archive, University of Oxford);
- "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" Annotated version (The Thomas Gray Archive, University of Oxford);
- Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude (Poetry Archives);
- On the Death of Richard West (Poetry Archives);
Prose:
- "Essay on the Philosophy of Lord Bolingbroke" Annotated version (The Thomas Gray Archive, University of Oxford);
- "Observations on English Metre" Annotated version (The Thomas Gray Archive, University of Oxford);
- "Some Remarks on the Poems of John Lydgate" Annotated version (The Thomas Gray Archive, University of Oxford);
Letters:
- From letter of October 31, 1734, to Horace Walpole (The Independent, October 2006, Find Articles);
- From letter of August 12, 1760, to John Clarke (The Independent, August 2005, Find Articles);
- From letters of October 3rd and 8th, 1769, to Dr. Thomas Warton (Norton Anthology);
- The Life of Gray by Samuel Johnson (Jack Lynch, Rutgers University);
- The Life of Thomas Gray by Rev. John Mitford. Facsimile of The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, Little Brown and Company, 1862 (Making of America Books);
- The Elegy and the Internet by Gilbert Wesley Purdy (Virtual Grub Street);
- Elegy unto epitaph: Print culture and commenorative practice in Gray's "elegy written in a country churchyard" by Michele Turner Sharp (Papers on Language and Literature, January 2002, Find Articles);
- "Gray, the marketplace, and the masculine poet" by Linda Zionkowski (Criticism, Fall 1993, Find Articles);
- Gray Agonistes: Thomas Gray and Masculine Friendship by Robert F. Gleckner. Reviewed by Daniel E. White (Criticism, Winter 1998, Find Articles);
- Thomas Gray: A Life by Robert L. Mack. Reviewed by Frank McCormick (H-Net);
- Thomas Gray: Contemporary Essays. Ed. W. B. Hutchings and William Ruddick. Reviewed by Duncan Wu (Oxford University personal web pages, 1996);
- Holograph images of the Eton College manuscript of the "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". Enlarged images: P. 1, P.2, P. 3, P. 4 (Gutenberg);
- Holograph images of title page of Poems by Mr. Gray (1768) and a page of text (Glasgow University Library);
- Portrait of Thomas Gray by Benjamin Wilson (Yale University Library);
- Chronology of the Life and Works of Thomas Gray (The Thomas Gray Archive, University of Oxford);
- Buckinghamshire Literary Map: Stoke Poges and Thomas Gray with photos (BBC);
- Thomas Gray Monument at Stoke Poges (Poet's Graves);
- Wendell Berry;
- Claudia Emerson
- John Keats;
- Ted Kooser;
- Giacomo Leopardi;
- Federico Garcia Lorca;
- Lisel Mueller (Winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry);
- Pablo Neruda; and,
- Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Monday, November 28, 2005
Adware & Malware Identifier Index
How to Remove ISTBar.
The following is a detail page of Virtual Grub Street's Adware & Malware Identifier Index:
The information in the Adware & Malware Identifier Index is the result of thousands of web searches. It can not, however, possibly be complete. The subject is vast and constantly changing. Moreover, vendor uninstall tools and other removal tools do not necessarily remove all of an infection from your computer. Vendor uninstall tools, for instance, may silently leave cookies or other tracking software installed. It is suggestible to follow up a removal with one or more adware scans and/or to do an inspection using a HijackThis log. The information on the page is not guaranteed correct and any use you may choose to make of it is entirely at your own risk. ISTBar, SideFind
- Associated Worms/Trojans: W32.IST [Panda]; Win32.IstBar.ap; Win32.IstBar.bp; Win32.IstBar.bm; Win32.Istbar.bo; Win32.Istbar.bu; Win32.Istbar.bx; Win32/IstBar.ce [Computer Associates]; W32/Istbar.CK@dl [F-Prot]; Win32.Istbar.cl; Win32.Istbar.dh; Win32.Istbar.dr; Win32.IstBar.e [Kaspersky]; Win32.Istbar.eo; Win32.IstBar.gen [Kaspersky]; Win32.IstBar.gu [Kaspersky]; Win32.IstBar.i; W32/Istbar.MY [NORMAN]; Win32.IstBar.p[Kaspersky]; Win32.Istbar.u; Win32/PMagic.A [Computer Associates].
- Executable Files: l9lecc.exe; istsvc[1].exe; bb.exe; bundlernetscape.exe; crack.exe; dust.exe; games.exe; iinstall.exe; iinstall19866.exe; installs.exe; ist.exe; ist1.exe; istdownload.exe; istinstall_154074.exe; istinstall_netscape.exe; optimize.exe; scan.exe; penmzp.exe; sidefind.exe; srcle32.exe; ssdbkup.exe; start.exe; uveu42at.exe; ymhfvu.exe.
- Dynamic Link Libraries: acsproxy.dll; cmctl.dll; flashplayer.dll; fwntoolbar.dll; gzlib.dll; istbar.dll; imgconv.dll; intrigue.dll; istactivex.dll; istbar_mainstream[1].dll; istbarcm.dll; lhqibp.dll; mediaaccc.dll; nem218.dll; sfbho.dll; sidefind.dll; srchbar.dll; vic32.dll; ysbactivex.dll.
- Directory/Search Page:
- Uninstall page URL:
- Related Articles: Fighting Malware with Standard Windows Tools (February 25, 2007). You may have more in your bag of tricks than you realize. How to Remove ISearchTech.SideFind; ISearchTech.SideFind Update (08-27-05); How to Remove YourSiteBar; Important Removal Tool Note.
- Notes: According to the Spyware Information Center, this infection is also known as: "DownloadPlus and SearchBarCash-Hijacker. ISTbar/MSCache is also known as MSUpdates\MSCache., Trj/W32.IST[Panda], TrojanDownloader.Win32.IstBar.e[Kaspersky], Spyware/ISTbar[Panda], TrojanDownloader.Win32.IstBar.p[Kaspersky], Trojan Horse[Panda], Adware/nCase[Panda], Win32/IstBar.ce!Downloader[Computer Associates], TrojanDownloader.Win32.IstBar.t[Kaspersky], Win32/PMagic.A!Trojan[Computer Associates], TrojanDownloader.Win32.IstBar.p, actalert.exe, W32/Istbar.CK@dl [F-Prot], Trojan-Downloader.Win32.IstBar.gu [Kaspersky], Adware-ISTbar [McAfee], W32/Istbar.MY [NORMAN]". All variants use a corresponding variant of the TrojanDownloader.Win32.IstBar. ISTBar may download various other parasites while installed. These items may have to be removed separately.
- Most versions of this infection can now be removed by using Spybot S&D.
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