Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Friday, July 11, 2025
For the Gorge: “Look Homeward, Gergen.”
Comments Off on For the Gorge: “Look Homeward, Gergen.”
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Look Homeward, Posey . . . Continues.
"Posey’s characters, even the minor ones, seem as if they could
beckon the camera into filming a whole other movie — perhaps
a movie more interesting than the one they’re in."
— https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/
magazine/parker-posey-white-lotus.html .
Amen.
Comments Off on Look Homeward, Posey . . . Continues.
Monday, February 17, 2025
For White Lotus Season 3 Fans:
Look Homeward, Posey
See as well White Lotus 3 star Parker Posey in other posts
that were earlier also tagged Fresh Culls.
Comments Off on For White Lotus Season 3 Fans:
Look Homeward, Posey
Look Homeward, Posey
Sunday, June 23, 2024
“In the Details”
Parker Posey in "Thelma," a new film featured today
on CBS Sunday morning —
The above arboreal background forms what might be called,
in the words of the great Warren PA photographer Gordon Mahan,
a "crotch shot." … Some may prefer Emma Watson —
Comments Off on “In the Details”
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
“Someone Puts a Poem Together”
— Hat Tip to Wallace Stevens
Updated with noun-adjective distinction and Feinerman art
at 5:25 PM ET on Wednesday, February 7, 2024.
Note: The above is not the standard Spanish
word for pineapple. It actually means . . .
AS A NOUN —
__________________________________________________________
Update on the next day, February 7th —
AS AN ADJECTIVE —
|
"Esta fruta se puede probar también en las vías de acceso a la denominada 'capital piñera de Colombia', donde en la última semana de julio se celebra el Reinado Internacional de la Piña."
"This fruit can also be tasted in the access routes of the 'pineapple capital of Colombia', where during the last week of July they celebrate the International Pineapple pageant."
|
From this journal during the last week of July 2023 —
Comments Off on “Someone Puts a Poem Together”
— Hat Tip to Wallace Stevens
— Hat Tip to Wallace Stevens
Thursday, July 27, 2023
Incipient Colorings
The above title was suggested by a Log24 post of Sunday morning.
"You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?"
Comments Off on Incipient Colorings
Sunday, July 23, 2023
Fresh Culls
"It is not enough to cover the rock with leaves.
We must be cured of it by a cure of the ground
Or a cure of ourselves, that is equal to a cure
Of the ground, a cure beyond forgetfulness.
And yet the leaves, if they broke into bud,
If they broke into bloom, if they bore fruit,
And if we ate the incipient colorings
Of their fresh culls might be a cure of the ground."
— "The Rock," a poem by Wallace Stevens from
a section with the same title in the Collected Poems .
Comments Off on Fresh Culls
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Bedrock
Today's previous post suggests the following—
Bester on bedrock and "the bottom line of all existence" suggests
a review of Wallace Stevens's "The Rock." Some background:
See Succor, May 11, and But Seriously, May 12.
See also Waiting for Benjamin, May 15.
Larry McMurtry famously wrote of reading Walter Benjamin
at the Dairy Queen. I never read Benjamin there, but I did
read at least some of the Bester book quoted above.
The bottom lines of this peculiar meditation—
It is not enough to cover the rock with leaves.
We must be cured of it by a cure of the ground
Or a cure of ourselves, that is equal to a cure
Of the ground, a cure beyond forgetfulness.
And yet the leaves, if they broke into bud,
If they broke into bloom, if they bore fruit,
And if we ate the incipient colorings
Of their fresh culls might be a cure of the ground.
— "The Rock," a poem by Wallace Stevens from
a section with the same title in the Collected Poems .
Comments Off on Bedrock
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Waiting for Benjamin
… Walter Benjamin, that is… At the Dairy Queen.
(With apologies to Parker Posey.)
"One of Benjamin's many unrealised projects was a book
that would consist only of culls from already existing material;
he would do no more than arrange and edit."
— Screenwriter Frederic Raphael, May 2011 Literary Review
Raphael is clever, but I prefer Wallace Stevens on culls—
It is not enough to cover the rock with leaves.
We must be cured of it by a cure of the ground
Or a cure of ourselves, that is equal to a cure
Of the ground, a cure beyond forgetfulness.
And yet the leaves, if they broke into bud,
If they broke into bloom, if they bore fruit,
And if we ate the incipient colorings
Of their fresh culls might be a cure of the ground.
Dairy Queen — Click to enlarge—
See also Stevens and "The Rock" in this journal and today's "Shoe."
Comments Off on Waiting for Benjamin