Posts tagged “Poetry”
Your early 20s are nothing new
From Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin: Idle again by dedication, oppressed by emptiness of soul, he strove to achieve the appropriation of other’s thought – a splendid goal; with shelves of books deployed for action, he read, and read – no satisfaction: here’s boredom, madness or pretence, here there’s no conscience, here no sense; they’re all chained up […]
A Silly Verse
I’ve been told that it’s impossible to truly appreciate Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin unless you read it in Russian. I may not recognize how truly great the poetry is, but I had a wonderful time reading it regardless. A gazillion critics have written gazillions of pages on the poem and you might enjoy poking through a […]
Proof
Her skin, saffron toasted in the sun, eyes darting like a gazelle. —That god who made her, how could he have left her alone? Was he blind? —This wonder is not the result of blindness: she is a woman, and a sinuous vine. The Buddha’s doctrine thus is proven: nothing in this world was created. […]
Instead
Instead of a bunch of links to depressing stories, I’ve got a depressing (but very very lovely) poem for you this Saturday. Death of a Field Paula Meehan The field itself is lost the morning it becomes a site When the Notice goes up: Fingal County Council – 44 houses The memory of the field […]
For Your Soul
What Work Is Philip Levine We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work. You know what work is–if you’re old enough to read this you know what work is, although you may not do it. Forget you. This is about waiting, shifting from one foot to another. […]
A Poem
Complicated Pleasures Bill Ramsell We were in bed together listening to Lyric, to a special about the Russians, when the tanks rolled into Babylon. For a second I could feel their engines, and the desert floor vibrating, in the radio’s bass rattling your bedroom as the drums expanded at the centre of the Leningrad, as […]
What I’ve Noticed
Indexed expresses a little anger with an awesome Venn diagram. Hollywood’s five saddest attempts at feminism. [via Feministing] Lays out how those “strong” female characters are so very disappointing. Some Iraqi’s have no hope left: do you know that your tomorrow has no tomorrow? that your blood is the ink of new maps? Unsurprising news […]