R.I.P. Inger Christensen

Inger Christensen, a deeply important poet for many of us-- the kind who managed, somehow, to engage both language and politics with equal force-- has died.

http://greeninteger.blogspot.com/2009/01/danish-it-girl-on-death-of-inger.html

http://www.norddahl.org/english/2009/01/inger-christensen-1935-2009/

http://www.erasmuspc.com/index.php?id=18273&type=article

A New Year...

As Israel continues its offensive/massacre/"retaliation" (the language around this is particularly interesting), major US politicians (Democrat & Republican alike) continue to support, whether explicitly or not, these actions. Another win for ethnocentrism & terror-- as deeply folded into Western democracy and state power as it is more conventionally recognized in the hands of the dispossessed. I thought this article did a good job summing up the political nature and timing of the assault.

In the meanwhile, I return from a three-day New Year's celebration in Atlanta.