This is an anthology, then, of the writing that gets produced when reasonable men and women fight off the extremes of protest and despair to which they’ve been driven by the devastation of this planet. That makes this a practical-minded collection, commendably light on the vaporous spirituality, the blank stare, found in so much nature writing. This is literature for a cause...
6.9.08
5.9.08
Summer in the City:
...Over there, bending the ear of a young cop who was attempting to pry himself away without leaving his post, was the little man who showed up at all public functions, waving a greasy, much folded piece of paper that may once have been an official document. His cause, an ancient and esoteric grievance, was instantly forgotten by anyone who listened to two minutes of it, although it seemed to keep him alive. The dirty shirtless man with the nine misshapen and mange-ridden dogs was there--from the look of them you assumed a carnival of incest--and so was the marooned Swiss woman with the stainless-steel hip who regularly woke up everybody on the block calling all night for her cat, Gaston...Luc Sante/Pinakothek
3.9.08
Barking
...to inform youJim Harrison/PoetryMagazine
that I didn’t die young.
Age swept past me
but I caught up.
Spring has begun here and each day
brings new birds up from Mexico.
Yesterday I got a call from the outside
world but I said no...
24.8.08
Ida Hammershøi
Vilhelm Hammershøi is pretty much my favorite painter
Poem
...a clumsyNico Alvarado-Greenwood
paraphrase of something the woman I love,
who isn't a corporate lawyer, said to me
& messed me up with, which she does often & which
is one of the too many reasons I'm falling apart
with happiness. Her name, or one of them, is
Cecilia—strange, no? I'm terribly sorry...
Verse Daily
a testament to the risks of speaking out or thinking originally in a society ruled by a repressive regime
21.8.08
20.8.08
19.8.08
She's not real
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This is not related to the Amanda Shaw post below.
Amanda Shaw's about as real as it's possible to get.
18.8.08
poetry here is generally quoted in enticing snippets
rather than whole cloth
Voisine's poem is longer, more complete,
can be read entire at the link
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Unfinished Letter to Death
In the ring, most boxersConnie Voisine
Vodka itself is not so terrible if
The tobacco industry has systematically
You see, if I had only been ten minutes earlier,
The toaster and the hairdryer are indeed flawed appliances but
It only took one despot, a painting by Degas, and an angry mistress to
War, to many of us here in the United States, seems a bit
Please, think of the How much would it take to
From now on, I promise to
I can guarantee, not only Geronimo and his ghost...
Campbell Corner Poetry Prize
Language Corner
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via Poetry Daily
17.8.08
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14.8.08
"We're moving beyond the music space," says Mayers. "We want to use Superfly as the umbrella company to build our brand. Real estate, restaurants, hotels, resorts--we're open to everything."-
Outside Lands
Damien Hirst said, 'I am delighted to be able to support Survival International and their work for threatened tribal peoples around the world – who are too often the ‘forgotten’ peoples.'
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