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Faith & Doctrine, Poetry & Surprise
Friday October 23, 2009
In response to my post a few weeks ago on a shared theme I’d noticed among some Image poets, K. Rogers wrote this thoughtful critique: “Finding common ground is not a bad goal, but surely not the only objective for poets! Dip your pen into the ink well only so far and where are the deeper truths? I fear you....
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The End of Musical Memory
Thursday October 22, 2009
I don’t own any Deep Purple records, but I can get from Sixpence None the Richer to the Squirrel Nut Zippers in only four moves, and those moves involve almost everything that was important to me during the years I acquired those records: magazines, MTV, the radio, church, girls, school, and playing in bands....
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Feeling a Story
Wednesday October 21, 2009
Two weekends ago, I learned something about a friend that took me by surprise and helped me to understand stories and novels in a different way. I discovered that, way back before he was married and graduated from law school, my friend had been a graduate student. Not only that, but he had taken a course co-taught by....
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The Inglourious Dilemma, Volume Two
Tuesday October 20, 2009
Inglourious Basterds is one of the year’s most talked-about films. And rightly so. It takes chutzpah to tell stories of Jewish-American soldiers who hunt Nazis, capture them, then bash their heads in and scalp them. And an additional dose of ego to illustrate an alternate ending to World War II that involves....
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The Inglourious Dilemma, Volume One
Monday October 19, 2009
In elementary school, I read an interview with the young star of my favorite sitcom, Mork and Mindy. That was thirty years ago. But I still recall Robin Williams’ remembrances of childhood—particularly his love for model-making. And it wasn’t just ordinary model-making. He’d take several plastic model kits, mix up their....
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Art by Agnes Martin, James MacMillan on music, interview with Tim Gautreaux, poems by John F. Deane.
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