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A lighthearted intertextual interlude
This past week I taught a short course on reading and enjoying poetry, bookended and interrupted by Ogden Nash. Among other things, it included a…
E. Lily Yu
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Leaves, Flowers, Fruit
All fruits in the Vaccinium genus (blueberries, huckleberries, cranberries, deerberries) are edible, though not all are delectable. Though they can be…
E. Lily Yu
Jul 19
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Jackals
While I’ve never seen it staged, when I was a child I found a fading orange copy of Christopher Fry’s The Lady’s Not For Burning at the annual library…
E. Lily Yu
Jul 4
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Queenright
I read Maurice Maeterlinck’s The Life of the Bee very early in my life, led there by epigraphs in Laurie R. King’s On The Segregation of the Queen, and…
E. Lily Yu
May 14
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Sketches
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages… In retrospect I am struck by what shining veins of gold are mined from interstitial time. On my last day in…
E. Lily Yu
Apr 17
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From Stinging, Sweetness
Every February for the past four years, ever since I lost my last job, I walk to a park where nettles grow wild, carrying kitchen scissors, a paper bag…
E. Lily Yu
Mar 19
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On Privacy and Solitude
There are two truths against which the networked, cabled world with all its unutterable speed and weight flings itself with a roar like the ocean…
E. Lily Yu
Feb 27
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On Giving Up
Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult. —Yeats, “To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing” In a job interview in May…
E. Lily Yu
Jan 29
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Teleology
The idea of looking at objects and phenomena in terms of their goals arose with Plato and Aristotle. Here I steal the term teleology (from telos, end…
E. Lily Yu
Jan 16
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Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes, briefly
Like hundreds of other people, perhaps even two hundred people, I have spent years being baffled by the microscopy notes and photographs in mushroom…
E. Lily Yu
Dec 16, 2021
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The Courage of Making
There is—or was, last time I saw—a crooked kind of ladder leaning against the wall of my grandmother’s house, made of peeled hardwood branches held…
E. Lily Yu
Dec 2, 2021
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Credo
And three dares
E. Lily Yu
Oct 20, 2021
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