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Category Archives: Writing
It’s Edgar Allan Poe Season
Here in North America we are all diving into the Halloween season with abandon this year in a vain effort to avoid the constant daily reminders of the slow motion demise of Democracy. Even without the the need to distract … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Photography, USA, Writing
Tagged American Poets, Edgar Allan Poe, Louis Daguerre, The Tell-Tale Heart, Walt Whitman
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Acquainted with the night rain
Robert Frost 1928
Kerouac goes home
The Jack Kerouac Center has released new architectural renderings by Boston-based Flansburgh Architects showing how Lowell’s former St. Jean Baptiste Church will look as a museum, performance venue and cultural center honoring the life and work of Jack Kerouac. The plans … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Museums, USA, Writing
Tagged Beats, Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac Center
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Never has our future been more unpredictable
Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Writing
Tagged authoritarian, Fascism, Hannah Arendt
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Books are natural wonders
“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot … Continue reading
we move another summer closer to our last summer together
THE ORDINARY WEATHER OF SUMMER In the ordinary weather of summer with storms rumbling from west to east like so many freight trains hauling their cargo of heat and rain, the dogs sprawl on the back steps, panting, insects assemble … Continue reading
Eventide
Mary Ruefle erasure of Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” Carl Jung once wrote: “Thoroughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, USA, Writing
Tagged American Poets, Carl Jung, Mary Ruefle, Robert Frost
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Fairy tales are about trouble
Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into it and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary stage on the route of becoming. All the magic and glass mountains and pearls the size of houses and princesses … Continue reading
Civil Disobedience
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth–certainly the machine will wear out… but if it is of such a nature that it … Continue reading
