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March 1, 2013
Marly at Waylines
Alisa Alering of the changeable hair and quick pen has interviewed me for a series called The Writer's Room at Waylines (issue 2.) She asks some curious questions, and I reply in kind. Perhaps I should admit that my writing room is much messier now, and the walls are obliterated with pictures to the ceiling. Enjoy.
Elsewhere: excerpts from 2012 books (A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage,
Elsewhere: excerpts from 2012 books (A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage,
February 28, 2013
Mole surveys Thaliad
A hand out in thanks to poet Dale Favier--
vignette by Clive Hicks-Jenkins for Thaliad
To have a thoughtful poet linger over Thaliad is a privilege, and that's what I am lucky enough to have in Dale Favier. "Zodiacs," a third installment of his musings is up at the Mole's burrow. Clearly he intends more, and I am grateful to him.
1. Thaliad
2. Thaliad: Upside Down From Us
3. Zodiacs
vignette by Clive Hicks-Jenkins for Thaliad
To have a thoughtful poet linger over Thaliad is a privilege, and that's what I am lucky enough to have in Dale Favier. "Zodiacs," a third installment of his musings is up at the Mole's burrow. Clearly he intends more, and I am grateful to him.
1. Thaliad
2. Thaliad: Upside Down From Us
3. Zodiacs
February 27, 2013
Thoughts on a living art--
I'm reading Book XIII of Augustine's Confessions for a class tomorrow, and finding certain interesting correspondences between creation and the sub-creation that is art. Creation happens and subsists from the creator's abundance and fountaining-forth of light and goodness; so exuberance and abundance in the artist leads to living art.
A work must be alive not to vanish in the press of time--not
A work must be alive not to vanish in the press of time--not
February 26, 2013
Bartlebyesque un-post.
1. In which I am Bartleby, that strange curled-up, non-reader
As I have written and then deleted three posts (forever, in ruthlessness and high boredom), I find that I must be a Melvillean Bartleby today, one who unaccountably prefers not to--at least in the matter of posts. Because it might be dangerous to wander past that point of preferring-not.
2. Whatever
shall I write a post about,
As I have written and then deleted three posts (forever, in ruthlessness and high boredom), I find that I must be a Melvillean Bartleby today, one who unaccountably prefers not to--at least in the matter of posts. Because it might be dangerous to wander past that point of preferring-not.
2. Whatever
shall I write a post about,
February 23, 2013
Trala / Unterecker / Wings
In which I am dutiful
At last, outfitted Thaliad pages for Amazon appear--at the link, and another here--at least for the paperback (hardcover, available through Phoenicia Publishing.) Anything to wish for, anything to dislike?
More Unterecker
"The achieved form, the symbol which the poem itself is, useful to the reader, but not useful as a motive for action, gives him a 'vision of reality
At last, outfitted Thaliad pages for Amazon appear--at the link, and another here--at least for the paperback (hardcover, available through Phoenicia Publishing.) Anything to wish for, anything to dislike?
More Unterecker
"The achieved form, the symbol which the poem itself is, useful to the reader, but not useful as a motive for action, gives him a 'vision of reality
Thaliad / surprise / artist and reader
The week past
was a pleasant one for Thaliad, with wonderful things said privately and on the net. As a number of people have asked me if there is anything they can do for Thaliad or another of my 2012 books (A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage, The Foliate Head, and Thaliad), and as I seem to be irredeemably shy about asking people to do anything at all, I am linking to a pretty good list (
was a pleasant one for Thaliad, with wonderful things said privately and on the net. As a number of people have asked me if there is anything they can do for Thaliad or another of my 2012 books (A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage, The Foliate Head, and Thaliad), and as I seem to be irredeemably shy about asking people to do anything at all, I am linking to a pretty good list (
February 22, 2013
A marketer and a poet weigh in--
"Building community one stanza at a time"
Despite the rumor that I loll all day in my golden bubble, dreaming and eating bon-bons, that bright imagination man Gary Dietz has included me in one of his 6by7 Reports as an example of a writer adapting to the changing world of publishing. Though I am sure he has been extra kind here, I am curious to see how writers in general and I in particular
Despite the rumor that I loll all day in my golden bubble, dreaming and eating bon-bons, that bright imagination man Gary Dietz has included me in one of his 6by7 Reports as an example of a writer adapting to the changing world of publishing. Though I am sure he has been extra kind here, I am curious to see how writers in general and I in particular
February 21, 2013
Common things
Clive Hicks-Jenkins interior art for THALIAD
COMMON THINGS
An effective symbol, as a matter of fact, must almost always be based on something as dry, and as familiar as dust. In the long run, the symbolist celebrates the importance of the obvious--by making the obvious important. The great literary symbols have almost all been common things. --John Unterecker, William Butler Yeats, p. 40
So
COMMON THINGS
An effective symbol, as a matter of fact, must almost always be based on something as dry, and as familiar as dust. In the long run, the symbolist celebrates the importance of the obvious--by making the obvious important. The great literary symbols have almost all been common things. --John Unterecker, William Butler Yeats, p. 40
So
Athanasius, Kamassian, etc.
One of the many vignettes by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
that decorate the pages of THALIAD.
Doves and cardinals, sparrows and juncos are puffed and perched in the rose canes, waiting for somebody to push through the snow and give them seed. Poor little fussers and cheepers, this Southern somebody is not quite ready for the cold world as yet. What am I doing instead?
Today I am going to a class on
that decorate the pages of THALIAD.
Doves and cardinals, sparrows and juncos are puffed and perched in the rose canes, waiting for somebody to push through the snow and give them seed. Poor little fussers and cheepers, this Southern somebody is not quite ready for the cold world as yet. What am I doing instead?
Today I am going to a class on
February 20, 2013
Fallen powers: on journalism
Vignette by Clive Hicks-Jenkins for Thaliad
The great powers and we the people
One temptation for great powers like the media is that they become fawning and cease to see what is before their eyes in an accurate way, fail to name what issues are important, and then obfuscate reality for the rest of us. One of the jobs of great powers like media and government is to be vigilant in fighting
The great powers and we the people
One temptation for great powers like the media is that they become fawning and cease to see what is before their eyes in an accurate way, fail to name what issues are important, and then obfuscate reality for the rest of us. One of the jobs of great powers like media and government is to be vigilant in fighting
