Dear Eyewearers, in order to determine how often I should update my blog, which has become a hungry mouth to feed (with content), it would be very useful if you could vote in the poll. Basically, if it turns out almost no one really visits all that often, I'll wind things down soon. I have several big projects on the go, and am finding it more and more time consuming to keep Eyewear state-of-the-art.
THAT HANDSOME MAN A PERSONAL BRIEF REVIEW BY TODD SWIFT I could lie and claim Larkin, Yeats , or Dylan Thomas most excited me as a young poet, or even Pound or FT Prince - but the truth be told, it was Thom Gunn I first and most loved when I was young. Precisely, I fell in love with his first two collections, written under a formalist, Elizabethan ( Fulke Greville mainly), Yvor Winters triad of influences - uniquely fused with an interest in homerotica, pop culture ( Brando, Elvis , motorcycles). His best poem 'On The Move' is oddly presented here without the quote that began it usually - Man, you gotta go - which I loved. Gunn was - and remains - so thrilling, to me at least, because so odd. His elegance, poise, and intelligence is all about display, about surface - but the surface of a panther, who ripples with strength beneath the skin. With Gunn, you dressed to have sex. Or so I thought. Because I was queer (I maintain the right to lay claim to that
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In 2006 you wrote a brilliant blog-review on "Modern Times" by Bob Dylan.
It would be great if you wrote something now on his latest "Together Through Life" which has been released today and is stunning for more than one unexpected reason...
Best wishes, Davide
Surely a writer with compassion has a compassionate audience?
as a recent discoverer of Eyewear, I like having a new (to me) blog to check out. I check in a couple times a week; on my own blog I've more or less dropped to once a week posts, or about four a month. Obviously you'd have to be more frequent if you want to write about current matters.
Whatever you decide, I hope it keeps running. And feel free to send along books to review, to take off some of the onus of having to write content.
I also keep my eye on Eyewear via Google 'following' mechanism - so I only tend to visit as regularly as new items are posted. Frequency isn't really an issue for me. I describe my own blog as intermittent - occasional gluts of regular posts between other, fallow periods. I know it's not ideal, but there's no law that says a blog MUST be updated very regularly. I like what you've done here - the tone / mix of content / subjectivity and objectivity. Be a shame to see it wind down totally.
Ever think of spreading the load - bringing in other mods/eds ? Emerging with another existing 'magblog'? Eyewear as a regular 'feature column' elsewhere?
I like the blog though and will probably check back soon - I will also check out this google reader several have mentioned.
Thanks!