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Friday, December 2, 2022

Lesson Plan for Nevermore Academy

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:52 pm

Eric Rosenblum in The New Yorker  yesterday:

"Her English teacher introduced Dunn to Thoreau’s 'Walden,'
from which she later said that she learned 'the concept that
if you examine anything closely you will see all of the forces
of the universe at work.' As a student at Reed College, Dunn
found a kindred spirit in her poetry professor, Galway Kinnell,
the first writer who could serve as a plausible role model—
like Dunn, Kinnell had escaped working-class roots to study at
an élite college."

See also other Log24 posts tagged Kinnell .

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Mimicry

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:09 pm

This journal Tuesday,  Oct. 28, 2014, at 5 PM ET:

"What is a tai chi master, and what is it that he unfolds?"

From an earlier post, Hamlet's father's ghost
on "the fretful porpentine":

Hamlet , Act 1, Scene 5 —

Ghost:

“I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combinèd locks to part
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:
But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears of flesh and blood."

Galway Kinnell:

"I roll
this way and that in the great bed, under
the quilt
that mimics this country of broken farms and woods"

— "The Porcupine"

For quilt-block designs that do not mimic farms or woods,
see the cover of Diamond Theory .  See also the quotations
from Wallace Stevens linked to in the last line of yesterday's
post in memory of Kinnell.

"… a bee for the remembering of happiness" — Wallace Stevens

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Dead Poet

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 pm

For poet Galway Kinnell, Princeton ’48:

Kinnell was named "Tiger of the Week" in a
Princeton Alumni Weekly  post of August 27, 2014.

See his obituary in today's New York Times
as well as posts here  on August 27, 2014.

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