Sharp Sand
Blog URL http://sharpsand.net
Located South Colton, New York USA
Joseph Duemer's personal weblog about poetry, teaching & life on the Raquette River in northern New York.
Latest Blog Posts
- Conference Talk Notes: Turning Digital Natives Into Digital Citizens on Nov 7, 2009 in Blogging Teaching Amy Hauber Clarkson conference Digital Natives
Note: I’m going to be talking tomorrow morning (with my friend Amy Hauber from SLU’s Art Department) about our use of blogs and other electronic media in the classroom and with our students. I’m going to use this post to sketch out...
- Gaston Bachelard, By Chance on Nov 6, 2009 in Language Philosophy Poetry Bachelard poetics reverie
I was reshelving a book in my office and noticed a volume on the shelf that I hadn’t picked up in a couple of years– a collection of selections from the work of Gaston Bachelard, On Poetic Imagination and Reverie (edited by Collette Gaud...
- Haiku on Oct 27, 2009 in Poetry Reading
Haiku in translation often require a fairly extensive set of notes or even scholarly apparatus in order for the reader to “get” the insight payoff that is the point of the form. For instance, in this poem by Kikaku (1661 – 1707) A...
- Attacking the Rationalists on Oct 25, 2009 in Philosophy Poetry Politics
In the winter of 1906-1907, William James delivered a series of lectures at the Lowell Institute in Boston on the subject of pragmatism. They were, in many ways, the culmination of a lifetime of work (James would die only two years later) and they al...
- The Dogs Dream in Tandem on Oct 25, 2009 in Dogs River Notes Candy Jett
I’m sitting on the bed looking out through the bedroom window over the river as I write and the two terriers are sleeping on either side of my outstretched legs. The dream together: at almost the same instant, both Jett and Candy begin twitchin...
- Toi Theo Dao Phat Giao on Oct 17, 2009 in Personal Buddhism religion William James
Not a conversion experience, really. More like waking up one morning with the realization that I had become a Buddhist. William James said of religion that it is the “fruits not the roots” that are significant markers of belief and if tha...
- Two Fall Collages on Oct 16, 2009 in Birds River Notes art collages
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