Be reconciled, poet, with your world, it is
the only truth!
William Carlos Williams
comix, poetry, painting, prose, drawing, photography, graphics, design - M. Hill, editor----- ESTABLISHED 1982
Friday, December 25, 2020
Thursday, December 24, 2020
a soul you can trust
Joe Biden's love for Seamus Heaney reveals a soul you can trust
You can’t pretend to love Heaney, for he’s too subtle for that
His peace process in language anticipated – and helped bring about – the political peace process of the 90s.
There is a depth in Biden’s response to Heaney that clearly goes beyond mere political convenience. He has suffered terrible losses in his life and perhaps he finds particular solace in this poet who voyages into the underworld and speaks with the departed. This appreciation of one of the wisest and subtlest of poets marks out Biden as a truly rare politician.
In general it is a good thing that poets are not, as Shelley claimed, the true legislators of the world. Would you want the antisemitic TS Eliot, Mussolini-supporting Ezra Pound or petty racist Philip Larkin influencing politics? But Heaney was that truly rare thing: a great imaginative artist who was also a wise and noble human being.
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Kurt Vonnegut
Facsimiles of the letters, along with previously published messages from after Kurt Vonnegut was released as a prisoner of war, comprise the new book "Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945"
Sunday, December 13, 2020
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The book of love: 400-year-old tome of John Donne’s poems is unveiled
John Donne is hailed as one of the greatest writers in the English canon, the author of exquisite love poetry and magnificent prose that has entered everyday language. To his 17th-century contemporaries, he was “the best in this kinde, that ever this Kingdome hath yet seene”.
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Homeless Jesus
Witness calls cops on ‘Homeless Jesus’ statue 20 minutes after installationBy Kenneth Garger
A statue depicting a homeless Jesus lying on a bench outside an Ohio church drew a police response the day it was installed when somebody thought it was a real person.
“He spent much of his time with tax collectors and prostitutes, largely to the chagrin of polite society.”
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