In a manner that is never less than elegant, Aspiz calmly and compassionately attempts to realign our ways of thinking about Whitman the poet and the myths we hold about him. This book is a major addition to Whitman scholarship, however understated its aim. In fact, thi...
Joint winner 2009 One of the Best Books of 2009 (About.com) Winner 2009 Exuberance is Beauty Award Adeena Karasick’s startling and arresting work constantly de-contextualizes and re-contextualizes language: its signs, signifiers, images, ideograms, pictograms, lexicography and syntax. In doi...
But I took a wrong path, and laid it down in an unmarked ravine, instead. reposted: the worst thing about dying 02 Wednesday Oct 2024 Posted by Linda R Davis Poetry in Poetry ≈ Leave a comment Tags Death, Dying, Loss, Love, Poem, Poems, Poetry, repost, Souls Missed Opportunitie...
flora and fauna of the region well. It would be a safe assumption to state that he knew there was no lion, but rats, wild cats and boar in Temasek (meaning lakes surrounded by sea; name for modern Singapore) Island. It was, therefore, strange that this colonial officer saw a tiger ...
Land. Moshe had already known this, of course, but up until this point he had been a master of denial. Between the sealing of his decree and his arrival at the threshold, there had been too much to do; too much to think about. Anyway, how could such an awful prospect possibly be ...
6. “Dying is a wild night and a new road.” 7.“That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.” 8. “Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.” Emily Dickinson Quotes About Love 1. “Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creatio...
We talk about The Gorilla. Share this: Facebook Twitter Tumblr Reddit Email Print LinkedIn Pinterest Proposed Lyrics To Metallica’s “Unforgiven Four” Posted byKeith SpillettinThe Poetry of Deathon December 29, 2014 “Yes, we sell out. Every seat in the house. Every time we play. Anywhere...
He shows that this poem, aimed at promoting spiritual tranquillity, confronts two anxieties about death not addressed in Epicurus's abstract treatment--the fear of the process of dying and the fear of nothingness. Lucretius, Segal argues, deals more specifically with the body in dying because he...
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything. —David Bowie 270 Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved bring...
time. Perhaps it’s because endings are easy and it’s the soft, scant flesh of existing that’s so hard to pry from the old bones and prepare for consumption. After a few weeks, though, I was relieved to discover that I wasn’t writing about death and actual dying but about dreams...