Update

I have a couple of posts I’m toying with that I’ll probably get up (or drop) in the near future, including a reflection I wrote after spending a great deal of time with Sylvia Plath. It does need to be re-tooled a bit before I post it, but at this point all I can say is that coming to Plath as a slightly older individual (than the typical undergrad/teenager) was quite an interesting and wonderful experience. It wasn’t quite what I expected coming from a “confessional poet,” and given that she is considered a part of that tradition is probably why I avoided her. I’m not a Robert Lowell ‘fan’ (whatever fandom means when attached to poetry… probably not much).

I also may post the Francis Bacon/Paul Cézanne papers (well, not the papers themselves but reflections related to them) I’m working on if they turn out to my relative liking. I always dislike it when papers don’t quite coalesce the way they should. That coalescence is usually as much a part of the text on the page as it is on the author’s authority. I’ll probably have to shelve them for a later date if they don’t work, it happens. At least I have Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty to call on for guidance as I work through the Bacon and Cézanne, respectively. Or, should it be called anti-guidance. I like the way that sounds.

In terms of graduate admissions I’ve heard positive news from one school so far:
Wait-listed at Minnesota’s MFA

According to the website: “We received a record number of applications to the MFA program this year: 443 applications for 13 seats in fall 2010. Applications are now under review. Applicants will be notified in mid-March.” Minnesota’s MFA definitely leans toward innovation. I’ll be happy to attend should I make it off the wait-list. I still do have a few other schools to hear from; I suppose I’ll see.

This post is getting a bit to self-reflective and journal-like for my taste.
So, Zizek: