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An Interview with Charles Hood
__________ Poet and photographer Charles Hood’s most recent book, South x South, based on a trip he made to Antarctica in 2011, has just been published by Ohio University Press (2013). Jordan Davis, poetry editor of The Nation, writes the … Continue reading
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Emily Dickinson’s Poem, “My Life had stood–a Loaded Gun–“
I’d like to offer an existentialist interpretation of Emily Dickinson’s famously perplexing poem, “My Life had stood–A Loaded Gun–” (poem 754 in her collected works). Here’s the poem: My Life had stood–a Loaded Gun– In Corners–till a Day The Owner … Continue reading
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Tagged death, Emily Dickinson, existentialism, God, life, Loaded Gun, poems, poetry, Terror Management Theory
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Sharon Olds in High Form
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Tagged life, literature, odes, poems, poetry, Sharon Olds, songs, tampons, toilets
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Have You Lived Today?
If so, I suppose that would mean that you: did something novel as opposed to habitual; slowed down and noticed things; thought; loved; valued; took some risks; and either identified with Dionysus or channeled with discipline your Dionysian energies into … Continue reading
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Tagged discipline, health, John Dryden, life, Nietzsche, philosophy, poems, poetry, psychology
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The Man with the Hoe (Millet’s Painting and Markham’s Poem)
In the late 1890s, Edwin Markham was visiting San Francisco and found himself awestruck by Millet’s painting of “The Man with the Hoe” (which now resides as part of the permanent collection of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, if … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam, adam's curse, art, edwin markham, Genesis, literature, man with the hoe, millet, poems, poetry
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Reading the Poem, “Advice for Dying Fathers,” at Butler’s Coffee
On Friday night, one of my poet friends (Niccelle Davis) took a picture of me reading a poem to an audience at Butler’s Coffee in Palmdale, California, and posted it at her blog. I didn’t look too fat, so I asked her … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, Dylan Thomas, Keats, literature, Niccelle Davis, poems, poetry, public readings, reading, Santi Tafarella, writing
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A Poem for the New Year: Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Ring out, wild bells”
From In Memoriam (106), by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, Alfred Lord Tennyson, new year resolutions, new years, poems, poetry
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Fall Poem: Actor Ralph Richardson Reads John Keats’ “Ode to Autumn” After Reflecting on Old Age and Death
Ralph Richardson died in 1983 at the age of 81, so this clip is from the mid-1970s.
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Tagged aging, autumn, death, fall, John Keats, Keats, ode to autumn, old age, poems, poetry, ralph richardson
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The Religion Tree
Using the metaphor of a tree, in the following poem I try to boil down the essence of the human predicament (which I take to be suffering, change, and death) and the response of each major religion to it (including the atheist … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Buddhism, Christianity, God, Hinduism, Islam, Jesus, Judaism, poems, poetry, taoism
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Charles Hood’s Poem, “What Still Needs To Be Done”
Charles Hood recently sent me one of his poems, and I asked him if I could put it on my blog. He said yes. A compulsive explorer of details, Charles Hood’s poems tend to be characteristically long (see here and here), … Continue reading
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Tagged art, charles hood, dante gabriel rosetti, death, life, literature, mail, phillip larkin, poems, poetry, to do lists
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The Problem of Pure Consciousness
. Sunlight rivers through the shimmering Sycamore tree, pools on the ground, Makes of shadow a living shoreline. I vibrate there. The juggler’s balls are Frightfully high in the rarified air. Eight Sheriff’s deputies in four cars came, but They did … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddha, consciousness, enlightenment, life, literature, love, poems, poetry, Santi Tafarella, the ontological mystery, yoga
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Advice for Dying Fathers (Contra Dylan Thomas)
_____ Leaves cling, do not go gently, but go just The same. The signal is yellow; the alive Are always downcast before being cast down. Look! The green team winning all summer Is starting to lose badly, going bald in The stunning … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, autumn, creative writing, death, Dylan Thomas, English, fathers, life, literature, poems, poetry, Santi Tafarella
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Catnip for Poetry Readers: T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” Gets an iPad App That Breaks New Ground
The iPad app for T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” is $13.95, which is a bit pricey as apps go, but what a bargain for poetry lovers! I downloaded it yesterday and started to play with it. The app really represents the … Continue reading
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Tagged apps, books, iPad, literature, poems, poetry, T. S. Eliot, the waste land
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What’s Wrong with This Picture?
Charles Hood’s photo essay on how places, when we travel, are “supposed” to look (as opposed to how they actually do look) put me in mind of the following Christina Rossetti poem meditating upon the inharmonies of existence. It appears to be addressed to … Continue reading
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Tagged chaos, Christina Rossetti, cosmos, harmony, order, photography, poems, poetry, the problem of suffering
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