Work in Progress

Collected Works

Copyright

Modernman

page from Modernman #6
Mike Hill 2012

 

 

 

A Little Book on the Human Shadow

Robert Bly 1988

Harper

San Francisco

 

 

   "What do you mean , 'I am not creative '? 'Let experts do it'-isn't that what such a person is saying? ...The audience wants a poet, a hired gun, to come in from out of town. Everybody in this audience should be writing their own poems."
-Bly

   "...our psyche in daily life tries to give us a hint of where our shadow lies by picking out people to hate in an irrational way."
-Bly

   "Culled from taped interviews and lectures of the 1970s by Bly archivist William Booth, these meditations focus on what Bly calls 'the long bag we drag behind us,' otherwise known to Jungian psychology as 'the shadow.' Bly's vivid and colorful disquisition on the shadow is so lucid that many consider this 'little' book to be the ideal introduction to its subject. Includes Bly's stunning essay 'Wallace Stevens and Dr. Jeckyll.' "
-robertbly.com

The Inner Ear

"His ear speaks to him"

-Paul Valery

The Inner Ear

Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.
-Ernst Levy

Lake Erie Shore

Presque Isle, Erie, Pa.                                           Mike Hill

The Inner Ear

"Poetry must haunt the mind"

-Allen Ginsberg

 

Beowulf

translated by Seamus Heaney

 W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

New York 2008

 

 

 

"... seems one way for an Irish poet to come to terms

with that complex history of conquest and colony,

absorption and resistance, integrity and antagonism,

a history which has to be clearly acknowledged

by all concerned in order to render it ever more

'willable forward / Again and again and again.' "

 

-from the introduction by S.H.

 

 

 



The Inner Ear

"Tomorrow...That fated Mistress of the Young, the Lazy, the Coward, and the Fool..."

-Johnson

The Street

In the Bahamas

A work in progress

 Distressed Property                                                                              M. Hill

The Inner Ear

"I who have no weapon but poetry..."

-Derek Walcott

Make Your Own Comic Books!

The Inner Ear

"There is no high road to the muses."

-Pound

Poets of the Caribbean

http://poetsofthecaribbean.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.html

Found

Under the West End Bridge, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Street

Prague                                                photo by M.Hill 2012

 

 

 

Cultural Jet Lag: A Retrospective

Copyright 2012 by Tom Roberts and Jim Siergey

Contact Jim Siergey at: studio@jimsiergey.com

KA-BLAM

 

 

  "In June of 1990, the first installment of Cultural Jet Lag appeared in New City. The strip, anchored by the Culture Vultures (kind of a Heckle and Jeckle on bath salts duo of carrion-seeking culture critics) features high art and low art smash-ups. 'An illogical combination of high and low culture with no regard for time and space' as Siergey himself puts it."
Jay Lynch, from the introduction

 

Old Business Cards

The Inner Ear

Ale "quickens the poet's wit and pen."

-Anonymous, 17th Century

Hops in SE Germany

 

Work

The Inner Ear

"Be slaves who will, the cynic shall be free."
Byron

-George Gordon, Lord Byron

Bahamian Folk Art

Self-portrait

                                                                                                          MRH

Mike Hill



The Inner Ear

"...When I weary of praising the dawn and the sunset

 Let me be no more counted among the immortals."

-Ezra Pound