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April 25, 2013
Lady Ise
"Lady Ise" is a new poem just out in Books and Culture Magazine (print and online)... The two lines in quotes are a translation from one of her poems. If you're interested in my poetry, please take a look. (There's also a place to leave comments, should you be so inspired.)
I was not thinking of this image--"Hatsuhana doing penance under the Tonosawa waterfall"--by Japanese ukiyo-e master
I was not thinking of this image--"Hatsuhana doing penance under the Tonosawa waterfall"--by Japanese ukiyo-e master
April 24, 2013
Curling up with words and cats
As child no. 2 has committed the destruction of her first snow tire and put my Corolla temporarily out of commission, I may well be driving my husband's giganteous black truck when you read this post. Soon I shall be out on another kid-ferrying trip, off to the Albany airport, where I hope in my borrowed mightiness and awe-evoking shininess that I do not bump into the mere cars and various lesser
In the realm of Updatery
LAUNCH DAY
Today is launch day for poet Rachel Barenblat's new book, and I am very pleased that Elizabeth Adams (Phoenicia Publishing) used a detail from a painted collage by my college friend Mary Bullington. Mary and I met when we were mere silly sprats in a workshop taught by the wonderfully amusing and insightful R. H. W. Dillard. May she have many more covers / jackets! When I consider
Today is launch day for poet Rachel Barenblat's new book, and I am very pleased that Elizabeth Adams (Phoenicia Publishing) used a detail from a painted collage by my college friend Mary Bullington. Mary and I met when we were mere silly sprats in a workshop taught by the wonderfully amusing and insightful R. H. W. Dillard. May she have many more covers / jackets! When I consider
April 23, 2013
Contraries: creativity and the news
1. Two contrarians
For many good reasons, I thought of Dobelli and Thoreau this week. Dobelli's essay is worth a read, and if you don't want to read the whole thing, you can look at this summary, which discusses news as toxic, misleading, irrelevant, a source of errors (via confirmation bias), and more.
Dobelli and Thoreau go so far as to reject paying any attention to the news. They're both
For many good reasons, I thought of Dobelli and Thoreau this week. Dobelli's essay is worth a read, and if you don't want to read the whole thing, you can look at this summary, which discusses news as toxic, misleading, irrelevant, a source of errors (via confirmation bias), and more.
Dobelli and Thoreau go so far as to reject paying any attention to the news. They're both
April 22, 2013
Useful motto
For poet Sarah Busse, a phrase nabbed from my rather silly facebook post about playing Cleaning Girl and having Them mess up the job (and so why ever do we bother?) Here goes:
The Lady consults an Astrologer
There's a new post up at Lady Word of Mouth announcement blog... Surprise, it's a debut novel!
Curious and sparkling Traherne--
From a solo show by painter and storyteller Eleanor Allitt,
inspired by the visions of Thomas Traherne
1. Traherne
I must have been around 23 when I first read the meditations of seventeenth-century poet and writer Thomas Traherne. No doubt I am lucky to have read him; much of his work was lost for centuries, and neither his poems nor meditations were published until the twentieth century.
inspired by the visions of Thomas Traherne
1. Traherne
I must have been around 23 when I first read the meditations of seventeenth-century poet and writer Thomas Traherne. No doubt I am lucky to have read him; much of his work was lost for centuries, and neither his poems nor meditations were published until the twentieth century.
April 20, 2013
"Sparowes"
It had a velvet cap,
And wold syt upon my lap,
And seke after small wormes,
And somtyme white bred crommes;
And many tymes and ofte
Betwene my brestes softe
It wolde lye and rest;
It was propre and prest.
--from John Skelton (1463-1529),
The Boke of Phyllyp Sparowe
Clive Hicks-Jenkinsfor THALIAD
It's dank and cloudy with sun coming through a patch of blue, but the sparrows
And wold syt upon my lap,
And seke after small wormes,
And somtyme white bred crommes;
And many tymes and ofte
Betwene my brestes softe
It wolde lye and rest;
It was propre and prest.
--from John Skelton (1463-1529),
The Boke of Phyllyp Sparowe
Clive Hicks-Jenkinsfor THALIAD
It's dank and cloudy with sun coming through a patch of blue, but the sparrows
Events
New events scheduled for North Carolina and Ohio in the coming 16 months. I'll be adding more in North Carolina soon.
April 19, 2013
"the centre cannot hold"
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
--Yeats
Have been watching the news on the computer, listening to the early morning havoc in Boston. Amazing how much wreck and
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
--Yeats
Have been watching the news on the computer, listening to the early morning havoc in Boston. Amazing how much wreck and
