Memorial links for the National Comedy Center at Jamestown, NY —
The Bricklayer, Scent of a Hot Tin Roof, and The Nutshell Miracle.
Memorial art —
Saturday, July 6, 2024
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Summer Knowledge
The title is that of a book of poems by Delmore Schwartz.
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From "Searching for God in the Next Apartment," Throughout Schwartz's poetry a question of belief is central. He thought we could not live without an interpretation of the whole of life, and that modern social orders were inevitably deficient in satisfying this need. He wrote studies and poetry explicitly concerned with the decline of Christian belief and the impossibility of any belief whatsoever. He read Rimbaud's ''Season in Hell,'' Valery's ''Cimetiere Marin,'' Arnold's ''Dover Beach,'' Hardy's ''Oxen,'' Stevens' ''Sunday Morning'' as poems forged in just such a dilemma. His own preferred poem, ''Starlight Like Intuition Pierced the Twelve,'' continued this argument. |
See also Log24 posts tagged Central Myth, and the following image:
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Poem
In reply to "Poem," by Stanley Moss, in
the Sept. 16, 2012, New Yorker —
"Then we take Berlin." — Phrase by Leonard Cohen
See also this morning's 9:29 post Language Game.
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Moss on the Wall
The following page from the Sept. 16, 2013, issue of The New Yorker
deals with current trends in paranoid schizophrenia. It may interest
fans of Philip K. Dick.
(Click for a larger, clearer image.)
As for the poem by Stanley Moss on the above page (35, by the way),
a quote from Wallace Stevens seems appropriate —
"It was a language he spoke, because he must, yet did not know.
It was a page he had found in the handbook of heartbreak."
For the "wall" theme of Moss, see (for instance), this journal
on June 3, 2013 — New Yorker Art.
"All in all…." — Pink Floyd
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