Some remarks about some things
notes, investigations, digressions galore
Ted Burke
- Location
- San Diego, California,
- Birthday
- July 15
- Title
- Bookseller, writer, musician
- Bio
- Bookseller, musician, writer and poet living and working in San Diego, California. His writing has appeared in the San Diego Reader, Kicks, San Diego Door, Roadwork, Revolt in Style,and City Works.His poems have been included in the anthologies Small Rain: 8 poets from San Diego (1996,DG Wills Books),Ocean Hiway: eight poets in San Diego (1981,Wild Mustard Press) , and is the author of many chapbooks, including Hand Grenade, Open Every Window,No One Home and City Times,limited editions published by his own Old House Press.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Dolly wants to kill you
May 29, 2012 11:15PM - Fuhgeddaboutit - Oy vey! -
Salon.com
May 28, 2012 06:29PM - You can say that again, but
louder
May 27, 2012 10:35AM - On Longwindness
May 25, 2012 10:07PM - A poem about baseball in
Detroit, yay!
May 25, 2012 10:39AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Rand was smitten by
Monroe's persona no less than
any other
star struck kid and
p…”
March 08, 2012 06:46PM - “@George Hoffman:
Actually, Mailer didn't refer
to himself
as
"Aquarius"…”
January 01, 2012 07:12PM - “Mailer's meditation on
violence and evil will not be
every
one's idea of a good
n…”
January 01, 2012 07:07PM - “@Miguella: His
contradictions were what made
his brilliance
exasperating; I
sup…”
December 17, 2011 10:40AM - “Thanks wendy. It's not
that I'm against subjecting a
work to
critical
examination…”
August 14, 2011 06:44PM
Ted Burke's Links
- New list
- Salon
- New York Times
- Slate.com
- The Nation
- Like it or not
MAY 29, 2012 11:15PM
Dolly wants to kill you
"The Home" by Kathryn Levy. - Slate Magazine:
This
poem attempts to tell its tale from within a nightmare in progress,
the effect being that the verse here, with its rococo imagery and
colliding associations between abuse, violence and gossip among
dolls and a government's unjustified , illegal, irra… Read full post »
This
poem attempts to tell its tale from within a nightmare in progress,
the effect being that the verse here, with its rococo imagery and
colliding associations between abuse, violence and gossip among
dolls and a government's unjustified , illegal, irra… Read full post »
MAY 28, 2012 6:29PM
Fuhgeddaboutit - Oy vey! - Salon.com
Fuhgeddaboutit -
Oy vey! - Salon.com:
Chris Matthews, chief bullhorn at MSNBC, is a pundit who has his faults, but even at his worst moments serving up bombast and belligerence he remains a better man that Salon's video commentator Frank Conniff. Conniff is billed as a comedy writer. Fine. But beyond/…
Chris Matthews, chief bullhorn at MSNBC, is a pundit who has his faults, but even at his worst moments serving up bombast and belligerence he remains a better man that Salon's video commentator Frank Conniff. Conniff is billed as a comedy writer. Fine. But beyond/…
MAY 27, 2012 10:35AM
You can say that again, but louder
David Vann, Wes Anderson, Philip Glass: In defense of artists who
always return to the same themes. - Slate Magazine:
There has been
something suspect and cheap shot about critics who dismiss a new
work by an established novelist/poet/film maker/playwright as
merely a product of an imagination of som… Read full post »
MAY 25, 2012 10:07PM
On Longwindness
"I can assure you,
sir, that these things really suck!" -- Don Van Vliet,when selling
a vacuum cleaner to Aldous Huxley
You're not a drone for not being
drawn to Don DeLillo; he either appeals to you or he doesn't, as is
the case with any other serious (or less serious) writer… Read full post »
MAY 25, 2012 10:39AM
A poem about baseball in Detroit, yay!
I do not
follow sports, cannot sit through series undertaken by home teams
against enemy ensembles, will not memorize stats regarding any
player's historical record of success or failure in their
professional game playing. I did, though, take great joy in
sometimes watching the Detroit Tigers. … Read full post »
MAY 23, 2012 12:47AM
Suck Hard For Best Results
Classical allusions in modern poems are
enough to drive a good man to drink a dozen soda pops and belch
until the sun comes again to the garden of night with a rosy
fingered dawn. That is to say that a smart allusion might, just
might make a poem snappy and… Read full post »
MAY 19, 2012 6:11PM
TWO AND HALF CAR WRECKS
When I was done clearing my
throat
hit and runs ceased being daily activities
and bullets left their chambers
to slide back into the box that borne them.
After the end of the world
home sales picked up
as if everyone desired a roof
that kept out rain
and false advertising.
Each time the flag waves… Read full post »
hit and runs ceased being daily activities
and bullets left their chambers
to slide back into the box that borne them.
After the end of the world
home sales picked up
as if everyone desired a roof
that kept out rain
and false advertising.
Each time the flag waves… Read full post »
MAY 19, 2012 10:39AM
Ape shit
There is no place
for the books you purchased
with the last of your change
and remaining pocket lint,
you've sent your last dime
to a cause since drifting toward a cliff
where white caps break
below on a beach
of black sand that glistens
like diamonds under the moon,
all that remains of your wits
are the shavin…
for the books you purchased
with the last of your change
and remaining pocket lint,
you've sent your last dime
to a cause since drifting toward a cliff
where white caps break
below on a beach
of black sand that glistens
like diamonds under the moon,
all that remains of your wits
are the shavin…
MAY 18, 2012 10:32AM
Myth as theory
Myths, as well anyone can describe them, are working
elements of our personal and social psychology, and whose elements
are "modernized"-- better to say updated -- as a matter of
course. Declaring a goal to make them relevant to the slippery
degree of modernist convention sounds is an insight best
su/… Read full post »
MAY 16, 2012 11:35PM
Language of Joy
Speaking of times in twangs of
alien regions
Which share memories of months
and distant smells of dust
and oil rising from the black
asphalt hours before the rains
came.
California is the vat of raw
alloys where grand children
Meet each… Read full post »
MAY 13, 2012 10:20AM
Ted Burke / Pinterest
I saw the original Paul Butterfield Blues Band in Detroit, 1966 or
67 at a no age limit folk and blues club called the Chessmate in
Detroit Michigan, and this was an event that changed my life
forever. I bought my first harmonica soon afterward and have…
MAY 12, 2012 1:21AM
late in this life
late in this life
in the night that surrounds me,
I check my email
and find you speaking
in italicized fonts,
asking me what time it is
and when does
life begin, after the sheets slide to the floor
or is after the
leave blowers heave wind and fumes
to no good purpose?
in the night that surrounds me,
I check my email
and find you speaking
in italicized fonts,
asking me what time it is
and when does
life begin, after the sheets slide to the floor
or is after the
leave blowers heave wind and fumes
to no good purpose?
MAY 10, 2012 1:00AM
TASTES
The poets I like have to be good writers, first and
foremost, no matter what their work looks like on the page. There
are many writers whose works are stunning to look at as a kind of
typographical art, but reading them winds up being an insufferable
experience, unpleasant not so/… Read full post »
MAY 6, 2012 10:31AM
“Watching the Telly With Nietzsche” by C.K. Williams. - Slate Magazine
A sad fact is that we are a nations of shut ins, finally, no matter
how much our media informs us that we love to go places and see
things and get to know the doings of the indigenous in
neighborhoods not our own. Perhaps we are, to a large extent…
MAY 4, 2012 10:47AM
"Variations (for Three Old Saws)" by Stephen Yenser - Slate Magazine
"Variations (for Three Old Saws)" by Stephen Yenser - Slate
Magazine:
Poetry makes
nothing happen, of course, but that this the point of it all, to
have a medium that is the verbal concentration of the human mind
struggling along in the world outside an individual's innate sense
of exclusivity. Stumb… Read full post »
MAY 3, 2012 10:56PM
The ticket is punched and you're leaving, goodbye
The death of a loved one is not something that one just "gets over", as if there were an expiration date on grief.Yes, one moves on with their life and tries to have new experiences and adventures, but poets, like anyone else, get older, and the longer view on their life… Read full post »
APRIL 26, 2012 4:34PM
Jonathan Franzen’s “Farther Away” is marred by his anger about David Foster Wallace
Jonathan Franzen’s “Farther
Away†is marred by his anger about David Foster
Wallace:
It is the writer's job to be interested in his responses to events around him, but there is such a thing as creating a style that makes one's intense self-regard a bearable thing for a reader who otherwis/…
It is the writer's job to be interested in his responses to events around him, but there is such a thing as creating a style that makes one's intense self-regard a bearable thing for a reader who otherwis/…
APRIL 26, 2012 10:40AM
oh, come on now
“Foundling†by Billy Collins - Slate
Magazine:
Former American poet laureate
Billy Collins has a nicely honed knack for writing about the small
things that go on his life, finding a convincing means, more
times than not, of tying the details of the banal and mundane into
a larger idea, lest… Read full post »
APRIL 18, 2012 3:10PM
More Nugent: I'm 'a black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally'
msnbc.com Entertainment - More Nugent: I'm 'a black Jew at a
Nazi-Klan rally':
I grew up with Ted Nugent,
literally, having seen he and hisband the Amboy Dukes for a few
years in Detroit during the Sixties, and laterwhen he broke out
nationally during the Seventies.
He was always
… Read full post »
APRIL 14, 2012 4:22PM
KILL YOUR IDOLS: Anti-Rock Revisionism
Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics
Edited by Jim Derogatis
(Barricade)
The
problem with the generation of rock critics who followed the late
Lester Bangs was that too many of them were attempting to duplicate
Bangs' signature and singular ability to write/… Read full post »
APRIL 14, 2012 10:33AM
A moment and then another moment
She crosses the street after
standing at thecorner for minutes that seemed nothing less than
hours. He watched ,thinking oflyrics to write. She stood at the
corner, jabbing the button of the pedestriansignal box, looking
across the street as if to see if perhaps a store shewanted to get
to before… Read full post »
Verbal Remedy AKA Denise
John Hughes
Dorinda D.
Paul Levinson
Joan Walsh
Karen Templer
Salon.com
