delivering a rich blend of humor, virtuosity, and intricate composition that captures the essence of the era while being identifiably distinct from any other album of its time. As the second studio album by British avant-garde and progressive rock bandHatfield and the North, it succeeded...
The final ballot-shower from East to West—the paradox and conflict, The countless snow-flakes falling— (a swordless conflict, Yet more than all Rome’s wars of old, or modern Napoleon’s): the peaceful choice of all, Or good or ill humanity—welcoming the darker odds, the dross:—Foa...
1799Oxyholotron: specious time travel paradox1800 Errid: poor mismanagement that leads to drought1801 wavesnatcher: chronic pirate of obscure music1802Niminal: sea monster of pain1803Retrude: introducing obsolescence that is unplanned1804Qart: art apportionment among museums1805Grimsuetude: Morose ...
So, returning to Sasha Dugdale’s non-use of notes inThe Strong Box, which we might compare to another excellent recent collection, one which does make use of notes, Geraldine Clarkson’sMedlars(which I reviewedhere), I think that one way to consider her project is to say that Dugdale app...
(30). As if animals were the key that opens her heart and unlocks the feeling of affection in her early personal development, they remain in a special and critical place throughout her poetic career.In the poems with a central animal character, this character is neither completely animalized...
In both volumes, this conscientious,engrossingcharacter begins on the book’s cover. The lowercase cover title of the earlier book separates ‘in-complete’ on different lines, forcibly emphasising ‘incomplete’ (my emphasis), but also introducing a sense of paradox, of deliberate, even playful ...
the journey is a paradox. how close we come is the same as how far we've gone. the apex is a simple lie. a forgotten name that still lingers at those abandoned intersections. we see everything. and nothing. orphaned arbiters of empty staircases. ...
Demons in Eden: The Paradox of Plant Diversity by Johathan Silvertown"Plurality should not be assumed without necessity." - William of Ockham "Nature abhors a vacuity Especially in perpetuity She finds her felicity In asymmetricity And notices no incongruity." - Jim Clatfelter"The motto of ...
This poem explores the complexity of love, expressing that it cannot simply be defined as one thing or another — and indeed, painting love as a paradox of rarity and frequency, modesty and profundity, sanity and madness, and much more. "Sthandwa sami (my beloved, isiZulu)" by Yrsa ...
For the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid. That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. Romance, who loves to nod and sing, With drowsy...