About

Really? You want to know about little ol’ me? I’m flattered. Be warned, though. The following is by no means exciting.

I’m a graduate student in English literature and language. I’m an Americanist specializing in poetry and poetics. I also spend a lot of time studying trickster narratives, linguistics, and rhetoric. I’m also a life-long, hardcore music devotee and a tech hobiest as well. If you can imagine a dude sitting around reading Hart Crane or Emily Dickinson while listening to My Bloody Valentine or A Tribe Called Quest and compiling a Linux program from the source code on his home built-computer all at once, you’ve got me figured out..

Yeah, I’m weird like that.

A few notes on what goes on around here:

The name of this blog, A Slant Truth, is taken from an Emily Dickinson Poem (#1129 in the Johnson Complete Poems),

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth’s superb surprise
As Lightening to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind—

This blog used to be simply Slant Truth. It became A Slant Truth after an unfortunate turn of events that led me to destroy the original Slant Truth and almost three years of blogging and start over.

The tagline, “Gently, but with undeniable will…,” is also stolen from a poem. This time Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road” :

From this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines,
Going where I list, my own master total and absolute,
Listening to others, considering well what they say,
Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating,
Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that
would hold me.

Please, I beg you. Don’t comment here until you’ve read my comment policy.

Feel free to shoot me a line whenever you are moved to do so.

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