The Inner Ear

"You see things; and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say, Why not?"
– George Bernard Shaw

The Inner Ear

"Poetry is an island that breaks away from the main."
                                                                      -Derek Walcott

S.P.A.C.E. 2018

http://www.backporchcomics.com/space.htm

Why Tyrants Love to Write Poetry

Why Tyrants Love to Write Poetry

By Benjamin Ramm

BBC

  "The Futurists had been influenced by poet-warrior Gabriele D’Annunzio, a revered figure who set up a short-lived ‘lyrical dictatorship’ in 1919, which inspired Mussolini’s seizure of power three years later."
  "...even Stalin's most critical biographers  have praise for his verses..."

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171025-why-tyrants-love-to-write-poetry

Your Household Bookcase

STEAL THIS BOOK
Abbie Hoffman
copyright ©1971 PIRATE EDITIONS 

  "Guerrilla theater events are always good news items and if done right, people will remember them forever."

  "One of the best forms of free communication is painting a message on a blank wall"

  "In all over 30 rejections occurred before the decision to publish the book ourselves was made, or rather made for us." 

  "The cartoonists who have made contributions include Skip Williamson and Gilbert Shelton."

FULL TEXT

The Street

Found Art

 Sentinel                                       M. Hill 2017

Art by ‘Terrorists’

Pentagon battles college trying to sell art by ‘terrorists’

"Let them know that burning art is something done by fascist and terrorist regimes — but not by the American people” - petition

https://nypost.com/2017/11/25/pentagon-nyc-college-feud-over-gallery-of-artwork-made-by-suspected-terrorists/

The Scots-Irish musical legacy in the USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN3H2JPqKRY&feature=youtu.be

Not Surprised

http://www.not-surprised.org/

The Street

Chicago Utility Pole

Medallion

Medalllion

Your Household Bookcase

Wall, Watchtower and Pencil Stub

John R. Carpenter

Yucca Publications,, New York, 2014 

"Never shall anyone knock the pen from our hands."

                                                                                   -Shostakovich

            "It is left for me

             to become the shadow that returns and returns again

             in your sunlit life."

                                                       -the last poem of Robert Desnos

OLDEST WOODEN STATUE

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/817598/worlds-oldest-wooden-statue-shigir-idol-carved-beaver-teeth-tool

Edward Weston

Pepper

http://d2jv9003bew7ag.cloudfront.net/uploads/Edward-Weston-Pepper-30-1930-via-artgallery.nsw_.gov-au.jpg

Sculpture

On Vilnia R., in Uzupis, Vilnius, Lietuva (Lithuania)
M. Hill, 2014

Poems from Guantanamo: the detainees speak

edited by Mark Falkoff

University of Iowa Press, 2007

  "Many men at Guantanamo turned to writing poetry as a way to maintain their sanity, to memorialize their suffering, and to preserve their humanity through acts of creation."

  "...according to the military's own documents, only eight percent of the detainees are even accused of being al Qaeda fighters, only five percent were captured by United States forces on the battlefield of Afghanistan, and fewer than half are accused of committing a hostile act against the United States,"

  "Perhaps their poems will prick the conscience of a nation."

from the introduction by MARL FALKOFF

"...in what sense could these poems, heavily vetted by official censors, translated by “linguists with secret-level security clearance” but no literary training, released by the Pentagon according to its own strict, but unarticulated, rationale — 'speak'?"

DAN CHIASSONAUG, New York Times, Aug.19, 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/books/review/Chiasson-t.html

http://www.closeguantanamo.org/

Le Corbusier