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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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Charles Hood on Africa and the Search for Authenticity
The following photo essay is by Charles Hood, who, like my wife and I, teaches English at Antelope Valley College in Southern California. Unlike us, however, when Charles is between semesters he is not curled up on the sofa sipping hot spiced … Continue reading
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A Gorgeous View of the Thames from the Tate Modern
An English professor colleague (and friend) sent me a gorgeous image that he took this afternoon from the Members’ Lounge of the Tate Modern. He’s teaching a semester in London: . The English professor’s name is Charles Hood and he … Continue reading
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Tagged art, charles hood, existentialism, life, lisa randall, Mozart, photography, physics, tate modern, thames river, travel
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Poem for Summer Vacations
Passage O soul to India! Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins! Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor! Cut the hawsers—haul out—shake out every sail! Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough? … Continue reading
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Tagged extremity, India, journey, life, literature, ocean, poem, poetry, sailing, summer, travel, Walt Whitman
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Quote of the Day: A Very Brief Parable by Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka’s “Give It Up”: “It was very early in the morning, the streets clean and deserted, and I was on my way to the railroad station. As I compared the tower clock with my watch I realized that it … Continue reading
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Tagged confusion, Franz Kafka, give it up, labyrinth, life, literature, minotaur, police, quote, travel
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Swine Flu Symptoms: Ache, Coughing, Sneezing, Fever. If You Have Any of These Symptoms, Stay Home
And if you don’t have any of these symptoms, and are out and about today, wash your hands frequently. This today in the Los Angeles Times: The symptoms of swine flu are nearly identical to those of other influenza, including … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, America, CDC, flu, Lancaster, Los Angeles, Mexico, new york, plague, San Diego, swine flu, travel
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“At the Creation, October 1, 1890”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella
Be just arrived. Be Midwestern dirt under Midwestern fingernails puncturing the skin of a juice-heavy orange. Be flesh of orange mist of orange before orange in sunshine of orange. Be the light softening the clay-lipped … Continue reading
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Tagged California, creation, evolution, Genesis, intelligent design, literature, music, poem, poetry, Santi Tafarella, travel, Yosemite
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Mesopotamia’s Hillary Clinton: Bold and Cunning Ninsun, Gilgamesh’s Strong-Willed Mother, Argued with Her God, Manipulated Enkidu, Protected Her Son in His Going to War, and Got What She Wanted
How did ancient Mesopotamian women deal with their boys going off to war? Part 2 of the Gilgamesh Epic may give us some clues. Here we are introduced to Ninsun, Gilgamesh’s strong-willed mother. Ninsun systematically, and with a great deal of … Continue reading
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To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before: Gilgamesh’s Inner Call to Create and Move
Toward the beginning of Part 2 of the Gilgamesh Epic, Gilgamesh desires to go away from his Mesopotamian city of Uruk, to the far-off forested “Land of Cedars,” guarded by the fierce dragon Humbaba. This going out to the Land of Cedars … Continue reading
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No Matter What You Do, Superman, You’re Still Going to Die: Gilgamesh, Tennyson’s Ulysses, Charles Darwin, and the Nietzschean Quest for Eternal Return
In Part 2 of the Gilgamesh Epic, Gilgamesh says this: Where is the man who can clamber to heaven? Only the gods live for ever with glorious Shamash, but as for us men, our days are numbered, our occupations are … Continue reading
Apollo and Dionysus, or Gilagmesh and Enkidu: A Nietzschean Reading of the Epic of Gilgamesh
In the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh there are two chief characters: Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Both are male, and it is striking that ancient Mesopotamian culture hit upon the same overriding tensions between these two characters as those that Friedrich Nietzsche, in his … Continue reading
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Tagged literature, philosophy, poetry, Santi Tafarella, travel, Urdu, Virgin Mary, water, wild, wild game, wrestling
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Literature Major or Prophet to the One True God?: Gilgamesh, Akhenaten, Moses, and Mohammad
The Epic of Gilgamesh opens with this sentence: I will proclaim to the world the deeds of Gilgamesh. I hear in this opening an evangelical purpose, as when the gospel of Mark begins with, “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 