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Meg Day's Last Psalm at Sea Level
The newest issue of Sugar House Review is out. They have updated their website to include highlights from the new issue, including links to the book reviews, where you can find my review of Meg Day's terrific book, Last Psalm at Sea Level.
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Good Eurydice
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Sugar House Review #11: Spring/Summer '15
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Sugar House Review #6: Spring/Summer '12
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Good Eurydice
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Sugar House Review #3: Fall/Winter '10
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Sugar House Review #9: Fall/Winter '13
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Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920
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Bill O'Reilly: A Biography
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Rocketry and Space Exploration
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“The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.”
― The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
― The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
“Sobre el mercado editorial, bueno, yo creo que es una estafa: un montón de analfabetos funcionales comprando libros de algunos necios. Lo que hoy se entiende por literatura o por mercado editorial es una estafa disfrazada de intenciones políticamente correctas. No tiene nada que ver con la literatura.”
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“2
Here is your inheritance:
to be a person and go on blushing, applauding,
saying “pardon me” without understanding
how it started, or stopping to ask;
believing somebody else knows;
not wanting to be alone.
Esoteric burlesque blossoming in mirrors, paraphernalia,
rainbows, dolorous sombreros, days.
The same presence everywhere. Look for it, it eludes you.
Not wanting to be the only one
with a small black coffin in your heart,
a small black coffin the size of a thumb
with nothing in it but wind.
For now, take this black rock and go on polishing it.
A golden cricket lives in it, listen;
a tiny blue loom.”
― The Snow and the Snow
Here is your inheritance:
to be a person and go on blushing, applauding,
saying “pardon me” without understanding
how it started, or stopping to ask;
believing somebody else knows;
not wanting to be alone.
Esoteric burlesque blossoming in mirrors, paraphernalia,
rainbows, dolorous sombreros, days.
The same presence everywhere. Look for it, it eludes you.
Not wanting to be the only one
with a small black coffin in your heart,
a small black coffin the size of a thumb
with nothing in it but wind.
For now, take this black rock and go on polishing it.
A golden cricket lives in it, listen;
a tiny blue loom.”
― The Snow and the Snow
“4. Full Circle
Today I like the traffic jam.
The engine noises heard in detail.
My whole life, a river of thresholds, stitches itself together
and gazes at me
from everywhere.
I like these places where time kinks and looks back over its shoulder
at itself. It confuses them, who are used to being blurs.
But I’m alright here with my terror. I’m in no hurry.
I get paid by the hour.
I let anybody merge in front of me.
I know there’s nowhere to hide.”
― The Snow and the Snow
Today I like the traffic jam.
The engine noises heard in detail.
My whole life, a river of thresholds, stitches itself together
and gazes at me
from everywhere.
I like these places where time kinks and looks back over its shoulder
at itself. It confuses them, who are used to being blurs.
But I’m alright here with my terror. I’m in no hurry.
I get paid by the hour.
I let anybody merge in front of me.
I know there’s nowhere to hide.”
― The Snow and the Snow
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Aug 05, 2008 03:16PM
Beggars Opera was essentially a penny opera libretto -- drawing its power not so much from its intrinsic esthetic quality as from its intended audience: the commoner. As with The Magic Flute (written in German) the subversiveness of this gesture was in insinuating that opera was suitable for, and could be enjoyed by, the lower classes; a statement that coupled the wealthy cognoscenti with the illiterate poor. This rupture in the audience of opera destined it to be popular fare by the time of Wagner and Verdi, but it was Mozart's genius primarily that transformed the musical version of high literature into something "fit" for the "common." Gay does essentially the same thing in the story of his Beggars Opera -- which was hugely popular because it presented the lower classes as having, at least, the same moral footing as the wealthy. But using penny opera to do that was an idea deeply indebted to Mozart.
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Thank you for the suggestions. I've already read Tristram Shandy and Tom Jones and loved both of them. :)I do always mean to get to Madame Bovary, and it doesn't seem to ever happen. Sentimental Journey is also on that 'vaguely determined to read at some point' list. Thanks for reminding me I definitely should. And Three Penny Opera, huh? I'll have to look into that.
I do love those Mozart operas. I've sung arias from all of them, but I don't know that I've ever actually perused the libretto. Just seen the staged versions. Do you mean the structure of the libretto in particular was influential? I don't know that I'd ever thought about educating myself in writing for opera. Thanks for the unusual thought! :)
