Monthly Archives: August 2018

The Perfect Fence: Upcoming Talk

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Scott Abbott

Flier just released for our upcoming talk for the Entrada Institute in Torrey. We’re very much looking forward to this. [photo credit: Tim Abbott]

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The Perfect Fence: First Citation

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Scott Abbott

Lyn’s and my book The Perfect Fence: Untangling the Meanings of Barbed Wire has been cited . . . in a Norwegian dissertation on opioid addiction. I’m not sure about barbed wire as a symbol of hope or a question of … Continue reading →

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Some of Peter Handke’s Notebooks

Posted on August 25, 2018 by Scott Abbott

These notebooks from the Marbach Literature Archive, featured in a new book titled Das stehende Jetzt / The Standing Now / nunc stans

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Summer Reading

Posted on August 18, 2018 by Scott Abbott

  Savoring the freedom of the summer, finishing my half of the book with Zarko Radakovic (We: A Friendship) and writing an introduction to a collection of my essays to be published as Dwelling in the Promised Land as a Stranger: … Continue reading →

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German Romanticism

Posted on August 14, 2018 by Scott Abbott

Preparing for my fall seminar on German Romanticism, I pulled this volume from my shelf and marveled again to have a physical connection to German writers and their thought. Like my own skin, the paper is spotting and wrinkling. Early … Continue reading →

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memento mori

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Scott Abbott

late-summer image-thoughts while walking this morning a turkey skull? perched on the street as I passed by and as a truck barreled down the hill. i watched the destruction from the side A beautiful, tall, vigorous douglas fir — until … Continue reading →

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Zarko and Nina / Photo and Drawing

Posted on August 12, 2018 by Scott Abbott

When Zarko posted these images side by side on his Facebook page, I thought he was responding to Nina’s work with photos of scenes she reminded him of—first his photo of the Gobi desert, then his photo of an Umbrian … Continue reading →

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Caroline Michaelis Böhmer Schlegel Schelling

Posted on August 11, 2018 by Scott Abbott

  Portrait by Tischbein Reading Robert Richards’ The Romantic Conception of Life for my fall seminar on German Romanticism, I come to a section about the personalities that made up the early Romantic circle in Jena. In a footnote, Richards confesses that … Continue reading →

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Island Soul — a new chapbook suite by Alex Caldiero

Posted on August 5, 2018 by Scott Abbott

  A triptych in the colors of the Sicilian flag, Island Soul comprises 2008 Notebook 1 (2 January-3 April) and Notebooks 2a (May) and 2b (Feb, March, May). For Utah’s Arts Magazine, 15 Bytes, I wrote about Alex’s chapbooks, about the idea … Continue reading →

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