Banjo52

Conversation. Especially literature and language, education, football and baseball, movies, history, then and now, birds, two-lane roads. "Banjo" is a fun word, and the instrument can make fine music. But this isn't really a blog about banjos, except in the metaphorical sense of interesting sounds riding across a valley from one porch to another. Click on any photo to enlarge. Students, remember to footnote. All text and photos: © 2009-2014 Banjo52

Aug 26, 2011

Some Thoughts about Literary Criticism. The Guard: a Short Movie Review. Elite Eleven on ESPN.

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Professor One As I may have said before here, I often find good critical writing superior to what’s passing for good poetry and...
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Aug 25, 2011

Sammi Smith, "Help Me Make It Through The Night"

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                  I came across my Sammi Smith C.D. today and loved this all over again. The young need to remember some of these names....
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Aug 24, 2011

Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Elegant Restraint.

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Lake Superior at Marquette, Michigan Lake Superior Morning Seney, Michigan, Rts. 28 and 77.  Great Cheeseburgers here. ...
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Aug 21, 2011

Robert Frost, "The Draft Horse," William Logan, Literary Criticism and the Power of Thought

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  I write this in the wake of some schools’ (cowardly?) surrender to ignorant, cowardly parents (and, remarkably, one college profess...
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Aug 11, 2011

"Lastness" by Galway Kinnell : The Poetry Foundation

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Lastness by Galway Kinnell : The Poetry Foundation “If you can’t catch the bird flying at you, don’t bother getting him at all.” ...
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Aug 10, 2011

Mockingbird Hill, Last Thing On My Mind, Patti Page, Doc Watson

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Pattie Page - Mocking Bird Hill - YouTube Last Thing On My Mind - Doc Watson - YouTube
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Aug 7, 2011

Revisionist Gospel: Farther Along, Winter's Bone, Maredith Sisco, Mississippi John Hurt

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 Here are two versions of a grand old song I'd forgotten about. You might want to stop with the two cuts I've found and skip my ref...
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Michigan, Ohio River Valley, United States
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