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May 15, 2018
Morning thoughts on creation
A good image for a flourishing mind...by Clive Hicks-Jenkinsfor Maze of Blood
One of the stranger things about Genesis is that God is shown making the universe, and at its end the universe is good. In fact, very good. But it's not faultless. Genesis never claims such a thing. The universe is order drawn out of chaos. But it's not order drawn all the way out of chaos.
Without some chaos and
One of the stranger things about Genesis is that God is shown making the universe, and at its end the universe is good. In fact, very good. But it's not faultless. Genesis never claims such a thing. The universe is order drawn out of chaos. But it's not order drawn all the way out of chaos.
Without some chaos and
May 7, 2018
A capital choice
The three poetry books
shown on this post all have
jacket art by painter
Clive Hicks-Jenkins of Wales.
My poetry books are Claire, Thaliad, The Foliate
Head, The Throne of Psyche, and...
a still-secret one, coming out late this year.
Don't skip the preface...
I should preface this little explanation by noting the simple fact that I have many poet friends who write in very different ways from
shown on this post all have
jacket art by painter
Clive Hicks-Jenkins of Wales.
My poetry books are Claire, Thaliad, The Foliate
Head, The Throne of Psyche, and...
a still-secret one, coming out late this year.
Don't skip the preface...
I should preface this little explanation by noting the simple fact that I have many poet friends who write in very different ways from
April 25, 2018
Oh, for the language of birds!
I also would like to learn the language of birds.
People in fairy tales sometimes have the luck of it.
(Illumination by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
for Glimmerglass.)
I've never spoke a second language well, though I'm perfectly willing to give the thing a go when I only have a couple of pages of phrases mastered. So in Cambodian, I spoke a little Khmer / Cambodian, and in Thailand, some Thai. One
People in fairy tales sometimes have the luck of it.
(Illumination by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
for Glimmerglass.)
I've never spoke a second language well, though I'm perfectly willing to give the thing a go when I only have a couple of pages of phrases mastered. So in Cambodian, I spoke a little Khmer / Cambodian, and in Thailand, some Thai. One
April 16, 2018
The rage against tips!
An interior illuminationby Clive Hicks-Jenkinsfor my long-poem and epic adventure,Thaliad (Phoenicia Publishing)Amazon reviews: paperbackHardcover only here
Why on earth do I sometimes fiddle around an answer a question on Quora when I could and probably should do a blog post? Who knows? Here's a Quora question I answered a moment ago, perhaps partly because I'm in a good mood and just wrote a
Why on earth do I sometimes fiddle around an answer a question on Quora when I could and probably should do a blog post? Who knows? Here's a Quora question I answered a moment ago, perhaps partly because I'm in a good mood and just wrote a
April 13, 2018
Family memories
Not the right movie, but the image will do--1959, Castle's The Tingler with Vincent Price.
I've been sorting through boxes of papers, tossing much and often stopping to laugh at some child's drawing or my own notes on a past conversation or an old letter. Here's a note with Nate, my third child, age 5, dated 24 September, 2002. He's almost 21, so I guess that I can quit referring to him as
I've been sorting through boxes of papers, tossing much and often stopping to laugh at some child's drawing or my own notes on a past conversation or an old letter. Here's a note with Nate, my third child, age 5, dated 24 September, 2002. He's almost 21, so I guess that I can quit referring to him as
April 9, 2018
The Prince of Egypt and the Sphinx
"The Prince of Egypt and the Sphinx" is up today at Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, where you can read poems, share, like--and where you can also find some other poems by me: "I Met My True Love Walking," "Epistle to F. D.," "Icarus, Icarus, Paratrooper," and "Landscape with Icefall." Thank you to editor Christine Klocek-Lim.
Christine Klocek-Lim shared Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY's
Christine Klocek-Lim shared Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY's
April 3, 2018
Penn-penned
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Be nice if one day people realised writing fiction was as hard as other art forms. No celebrity says, hey, I'll write a piano quartet for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, or I'll join Cirque du Soleil. Always 'I'll write a novel'. * **
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* Tweet of the day.
** Little pleasures of the obscure mid-list writer.
*** “Only if we are
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@matthaig1
Mar 29 More
Be nice if one day people realised writing fiction was as hard as other art forms. No celebrity says, hey, I'll write a piano quartet for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, or I'll join Cirque du Soleil. Always 'I'll write a novel'. * **
***
* Tweet of the day.
** Little pleasures of the obscure mid-list writer.
*** “Only if we are
March 25, 2018
Fiddling with Water
By Source, Fair use,
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
I've never tried screen-writing (probably poems, stories, novels, and some nonfiction are quite enough), but a movie often makes me think about how I would write its story differently, even when it is hung with glittering nominations and awards. For example, The Shape of Water was a stylish, often ravishing-looking piece
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
I've never tried screen-writing (probably poems, stories, novels, and some nonfiction are quite enough), but a movie often makes me think about how I would write its story differently, even when it is hung with glittering nominations and awards. For example, The Shape of Water was a stylish, often ravishing-looking piece
March 24, 2018
Goethe fans: Who translated Mephistopheles' words in Faus...
Goethe fans: Who translated Mephistopheles' words in Faust Part I Scene 7 (around line 2039?) as "the golden tree of life springs ever green?" Not Kline, Brooks, Taylor, Luke. Am thinking it might be the Douglas Langworthy or some other blank verse version...
March 23, 2018
The Minnie Youmans Place
From "19th-century farmhouse, Lexsy" by Brian Brown. This is grander than
my grandparents' house, but it is in Lexsy--my grandmother Kate once had
a fistfight with another woman in Lexsy, back when she lived there for a time.
Evidently Kate "Little Bear" was defending one of the children...
I am hoping Brian will not mind if I "borrow" his image, as he once
borrowed from one of my posts to
my grandparents' house, but it is in Lexsy--my grandmother Kate once had
a fistfight with another woman in Lexsy, back when she lived there for a time.
Evidently Kate "Little Bear" was defending one of the children...
I am hoping Brian will not mind if I "borrow" his image, as he once
borrowed from one of my posts to
