"The reality of a poem is in its impingement"

Paul Fussell
at Sprezzatura
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Fussell at Granta

Voyage

& I lay in my bunk and slept for so long,

I forgot about the ocean,
Which all the time was going by, right there, outside my cabin window.

And the sides of the ship were green as money,
And th and the water made a sound like memory when we sailed.


Tony Hoagland
Poetry Daily 21.Mar.06

Bunch of Ranch Mares and Stallion
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Bunch of Percheron mares

Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographica
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attn. Boynton: here, and much larger version here

Church of the Kazan Icon of the Virgin
William C. Brumfield photograph collection
loc

It was a wild place. People kept stealing my shoes.

Belated begorrah:

Vincent 'Mad Dog' Coll was born in Tigh Hiudai Beag's bar, future home of Clannad and Altan, in the Rosses, Co. Donegal
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Vincent Coll, Michael Basile, Pasquale del Greco, Dominick Odierno, and Frank Giordani
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Coll and his wife Lottie
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Telephone booth where Vince Coll was murdered at age 23
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Lottie Coll with Joe Ventro and Al Guarino, up on a rap
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"Vincent Coll and Fats McCarthy, his partner, are the two toughest guys I ever met."

Brief run-down on the murder of Vince Coll in Kill The Dutchman! The Story of Dutch Schultz by Paul Sann
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more Vince Coll here, here, and here

"but the house sparrows are . . ."

other although it doesn't look
like it actually feels good
it looks like some voltage
is making them do it
but they do it regardless...

Jon Woodward
Verse Daily 18.Mar.06

Nadia Anjuman Herawi
at Wikipedia
BBC

James. James Oscco Anamaría, repito tu nombre varias veces. Como una oración lo repito al comenzar mi jornada y le digo a Dios, a los amigos y a mi mismo, quizá para poder empezar a creerlo, que nunca jamás estuviste tan vivo.

antonio pérez morte
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What certain poets of trauma intuit is that their old self cannot survive the suffering it has experienced without succumbing. Thus necessity permits and compels imagination to create a new self, a self strong enough or different enough to move through and beyond the trauma and its aftermath.

Gregory Orr, quoted by Sam Hamill at Poets Against War

Fady Joudah: The Name of the Place
Poets Against War

A shopping mall swirls around the corpse of a beetle...

Poem With Two Endings
Jane Hirshfield
Poetseers
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Hirshfield at The Academy of American Poets
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Hirshfield at Ploughshares
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The Poet
Hirshfield at Steven Barclay - Titles, Links

The Crucifixion (details)
Jan Van Eyck
From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"Money complicates everything. I've got a genuine belief that art is a more powerful currency than money - that's the romantic feeling that an artist has. But you start to have this sneaking feeling that money is more powerful. They constantly collide, these notions. I even toyed with the idea that having too much money was the same as having not enough."

Damien Hirst, the world's most famous living artist, Observer UK 19.Feb.06


'In the name of the father'
sheep crucified and suspended in formaldehyde

A keyword search in the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog for "women" returned the maximum 10,000.
As of tonight I'm just past 1600.

Special train of Governor [Leland] Stanford, president of the Central Pacific, and {wagon} train of immigrants bound for California at Monument Point, a few miles west of Promontory, Utah, where the last spike was driven in the first transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869
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Victor Hugo
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Louis Agassiz Fuertes, whose life made other lives richer
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Birthplace of Thomas Paine, Thetford, England

loc

Mammal's Blood (An Unavoidable Mishap)
Paul Paddock
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Faith and Devotion
Shay Kun

Buia Gallery

word of the day: diagetic

"A lovely example of Evans' luminous 'cathedral interiors', which have given him his place in history."

Vintage and Classic Images
John Stevenson Gallery

"For Nanny I have devised a receiver with the capacity to pick up signals from hidden video cameras used to spy on neighbors, nannies, husbands and wives, or to survey back yards and baby cribs. I drive around the suburbs and collect material. This is a work in progress."
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an endless series of ecstatic moments

John Delk
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link path bloggy > artcat

Throughout the first half of the 19th century, there was a tendency for the pitch used by orchestras to rise. This was probably largely due to orchestras competing with each other, each attempting to fill increasingly large concert halls with a brighter, more "brilliant", sound than that of their rivals. They were helped in this endeavour by the improved durability of the violins' E-strings - in the 16th century, Michael Praetorius had rejected various high pitch standards as leading to snapped strings, but the new strings could take the higher tension without breaking.
The rise in pitch at this time can be seen reflected in tuning forks. A 1815 tuning fork from the Dresden opera house gives A = 423.2 Hz, while one of eleven years later from the same opera house gives A = 435 Hz. At La Scala in Milan, the A above middle C rose as high as 451 Hz.
The most vocal opponents of the upward tendency in pitch were singers, who complained that it was putting a strain on their voices. Largely due to their protestations, the French government passed a law on February 16, 1859 which set the A above middle C at 435 Hz. This was the first attempt to standardize pitch on such a scale, and was known as the diapason normal. It became quite a popular pitch standard outside of France as well.

Concert Pitch
Wikipedia