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October 19, 2013
Triptych with artisans, art, and music
Hand of St. Valentin. Paul Koudounaris
If a common thread runs through this three-stranded post, it is that each of these things I find interesting this morning made me see something new and anew--the past and church history, a Frost poem so familiar that I couldn't imagine it being unfamiliar again, and the state of culture. In each case, I saw or heard through another, and enjoyed what I
If a common thread runs through this three-stranded post, it is that each of these things I find interesting this morning made me see something new and anew--the past and church history, a Frost poem so familiar that I couldn't imagine it being unfamiliar again, and the state of culture. In each case, I saw or heard through another, and enjoyed what I
October 18, 2013
"Who will come to the old man's rescue?"
Robert Frost before he became "the old man."
Have you seen this article by Ron Charles, giving glimpses of a story? Joyce Carol Oates is stirring up attention, attacking Robert Frost (and his poems) by the means of the cudgel of a story in the November Harper's. I have a few thoughts about this sort of enterprise, even before I see the full story, only partially available to non-subscribers.
Have you seen this article by Ron Charles, giving glimpses of a story? Joyce Carol Oates is stirring up attention, attacking Robert Frost (and his poems) by the means of the cudgel of a story in the November Harper's. I have a few thoughts about this sort of enterprise, even before I see the full story, only partially available to non-subscribers.
October 17, 2013
Book of labor, book of dawn--
Walden Pond. Courtesy of Bekah Richards
of Snellville, Georgia and sxc.hu.
Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me. --Thoreau
Thoreau once joked that he owned a library of 900 books; they were all his own and all the same, for Walden had not sold. The pages uncut, they slumbered on the shelf, unread. Perhaps the book was too singular in its wordsmithery (despite kinship to
of Snellville, Georgia and sxc.hu.
Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me. --Thoreau
Thoreau once joked that he owned a library of 900 books; they were all his own and all the same, for Walden had not sold. The pages uncut, they slumbered on the shelf, unread. Perhaps the book was too singular in its wordsmithery (despite kinship to
October 15, 2013
Poem of magic
Go here to see a complete version of this translation and art
by Kathleen Mooney.
Douglas Hyde and Amargin
from Geoffrey Moorhouse
Sun Dancing:A Vision of Medieval Ireland
(Harcourt, Brace, 1997)
"The old [Irish] stories say that there was a poet, Amargin, who led* the Tuatha Dé Danann when they arrived in Ireland. To him is attributed some Druidic verse which no less an authority than
by Kathleen Mooney.
Douglas Hyde and Amargin
from Geoffrey Moorhouse
Sun Dancing:A Vision of Medieval Ireland
(Harcourt, Brace, 1997)
"The old [Irish] stories say that there was a poet, Amargin, who led* the Tuatha Dé Danann when they arrived in Ireland. To him is attributed some Druidic verse which no less an authority than
October 13, 2013
9 Questions that plague the mind--
1.
Why is it that when a peaceful, lovely, semi-elderly cat gets out of the house, she panics and thinks that her adored humans are toothy creatures from that mining planet in the ALIEN movies?
2.
Why must novels never be 100% finished but only abandoned? (Yes, I just abandoned mine on a lonely hilltop, where it will survive or not.)
3.
Why do facebook friends ceaselessly try to lure me into
Why is it that when a peaceful, lovely, semi-elderly cat gets out of the house, she panics and thinks that her adored humans are toothy creatures from that mining planet in the ALIEN movies?
2.
Why must novels never be 100% finished but only abandoned? (Yes, I just abandoned mine on a lonely hilltop, where it will survive or not.)
3.
Why do facebook friends ceaselessly try to lure me into
October 12, 2013
All writing deadlines met! Please come clean my house.
All writing deadlines met! Please come clean my house.
October 9, 2013
Lots of new Glimmerglass ideas from Clive here.
Lots of new Glimmerglass ideas from Clive here.
October 7, 2013
The Glimmerglass News
Clive is busy transforming the world of Glimmerglass.
Clive Hicks-Jenkins + Glimmerglass
If you'd like to see how the cover is progressing, go here. That's the second peep at what Clive is doing with Glimmerglass, forthcoming from Mercer in 2014.
Me + Glimmerglass
The book has been sitting at the publisher's for a very long time, waiting its turn. And so I decided to tweak it once more and
Clive Hicks-Jenkins + Glimmerglass
If you'd like to see how the cover is progressing, go here. That's the second peep at what Clive is doing with Glimmerglass, forthcoming from Mercer in 2014.
Me + Glimmerglass
The book has been sitting at the publisher's for a very long time, waiting its turn. And so I decided to tweak it once more and
October 6, 2013
Shutdown, wrap up--
Photo of The Gates by Christo and Jeanne Claude is by Brandon Keim of NYC. Courtesy of sxc.hu.
Impressed by Christo and Jeanne Claude? Liked the mystery and boldness of the wrapped Pont Neuf and the Surrounded Islands and Wrapped Medieval Tower, the Wrapped Roman Wall and the Wrapped Reichstag?
And now just take a look at all our 2013 Shutdown Simultaneously Wrapped National Monuments, the
Impressed by Christo and Jeanne Claude? Liked the mystery and boldness of the wrapped Pont Neuf and the Surrounded Islands and Wrapped Medieval Tower, the Wrapped Roman Wall and the Wrapped Reichstag?
And now just take a look at all our 2013 Shutdown Simultaneously Wrapped National Monuments, the
October 3, 2013
First peek at Glimmerglass!
You can jump here and look at the notebook of Clive Hicks-Jenkins, a once-blank region where he is now at work populating and decorating my novel Glimmerglass, forthcoming in 2014. Once again, as in Thaliad and The Foliate Head (see tabs above for news), we will have interior vignettes and a beautiful jacket, with immaculate design work done by the team of Burt and Burt for Mercer.
Clive has
Clive has
