poetry

  • Idle Reflections

Reading Aloud: Ben Lerner’s “The Rescue”

Reading aloud a poem published in the New York Review of Books September 21, 2023 issue.

1 year ago
  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

April-Showered Reading, Watching

Rereading Shakespeare, Borges; then reading stories by Walter de la Mare. Re-watching two films by David Lynch—neither being "Blue Velvet"…

2 years ago
  • Sub Specie 16-17th Century Aeternitates

Discovering Robert Southwell’s Metaphysical Poetry

A few reflections on the discovery of 16th-century poet Robert Southwell, apparently an exemplar of English Metaphysical Poetry.

2 years ago
  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Blithely Read Ulysses, Watched et al.: Feb 2022

In February 2022 I started reading "Ulysses" by James Joyce, "Odyssey", watched "The Killing" (1956) and other things like the…

3 years ago
  • Reading Journal

Reading well an excerpt from Cynthia Ozick’s novel “Trust”

An excerpted passage from the 1966 novel "Trust" by Cynthia Ozick, dripping with the poetry and squalor of Rimbaud.

3 years ago
  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

What was read and viewed during the sad, bad month of November 2021

Was it a sad, bad month, November? I read Athan Theoharis' "Abuse of Power", watched "Once Upon A Time in…

3 years ago
  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Read and Viewed: April 2021

April truly was the cruellest month, but only because I read not a word of T.S. Eliot.

4 years ago
  • Idle Reflections

Bad Poetry Morning

Repeatedly not finishing a sentence. Either subject or predicate but not both. Becomes some poetry itself.

4 years ago