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“I know that for myself, what is deeper than I understand is often the most pertinent to me and the most lasting.” — Lorine Niedecker
It’s her birthday today. I had not heard of Lorine Niedecker, until 2010, when I took the Norton Anthology out to Block Island with me, in the hopes it would help me get back to reading again. It worked. And … Continue reading
Substack: on All I’ve Got & Then Some (2024)
I’ve been meaning to write about All I’ve Got & Then Some, the winner of the best Narrative Feature at the Florida Film Festival, but I haven’t had a second to do so until now. We really loved this first … Continue reading
Review: Force of Nature: The Dry 2 (2024)
I dug The Dry (reviewed for Ebert), and this – despite the tagged-on The Dry 2 – is not really a sequel. It’s more an unrelated next chapter. It doesn’t work as well as The Dry: too complicated in structure! … Continue reading
“To me, Martha Graham is one of America’s few authentic geniuses.” – Bette Davis
For Martha Graham’s Birthday: First: Joan Acocella wrote a wonderful profile of Graham for The New Yorker. I discussed it – and Graham – here. In researching this post, I came across a beautiful piece about the time Helen Keller … Continue reading
R.I.P. Steve Albini
It’s strange to be at the age where someone dies at 61 and … it doesn’t sound that old. 61 would have sounded really old to me in the 90s, when Steve Albini and the music he produced was such … Continue reading
News about Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof
Deja vu horrible news out of Iran. (Another story I’ve been following is the persecution of Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, which has been going on for two years now. Last year he was arrested and tortured for supporting the Women … Continue reading
“Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.” — Irish poet Austin Clarke
“He cleared a non-Yeatsian space in which an Irish poet might build a confident poetry in English for which the term ‘Anglo-Irish’ is meaningless.” – Michael Schmidt, Lives of the Poets Austin Clarke was born in Dublin on this day … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin Clarke, Edna O'Brien, Ireland, Irish poetry, John Montague, Michael Schmidt, poetry, Robert Frost, Thomas Kinsella, W.B. Yeats
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“I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.” — 20th century hero Sophie Scholl
She was born on this day. In an atmosphere of almost phantasmagorical mind control and propaganda, how does one keep one’s bearings? One only needs to read George Orwell’s 1984 to understand the mental issues, the difficulty of not just … Continue reading
“He sold his soul to the devil to get to play like that.” – Mississippi bluesman Son House on Robert Johnson
It’s Robert Johnson’s birthday. “[Robert] Johnson has created a mood so delicate and bleak one feels he cannot possible get out of his song alive.” – Greil Marcus Recently, I was walking through Times Square and suddenly Robert Johnson’s “Hellhound” … Continue reading
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