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A Holiday Gift Idea
If you’ve got €60,000 lying around, consider bidding on the pistol that Paul Verlaine used in his attempt to murder Arthur Rimbaud.Read More
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Thomas R. Smith’s “Note to Self”
As usual, Thomas R. Smith cuts through the externals to touch the beating heart of the issue by setting it in the larger context … that is, within the body politic. His fine poem “Note to Self” begins like this: Well, we die whether we stay together or fall apart. Finally the world goes on its way without us. The most scourge-like name alive today will one day be spoken seldom if at all. To what purpose this sighing and raging? To what purpose this pain? The poem is especially piquant in the wake of last night’s unpresidential debate—or presidential undebate.Read More
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Interview with Jim Harrison [Video]
Thanks to my good friend and mythographer extraordinaire Joe Nigg for send this my way.Read More
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The Ardent Heart
Anne Higonnet, author and Professor of Art History at Barnard College, offers this insight in her review of photographer Sally Mann‘s Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs: Artists like Mann are miraculously able to suppress genuine scruples and guilt. Otherwise, they would not be able to defy convention the way they do. Or concentrate. Good art requires a mind that operates continuously below please and thank-you, below obligations and errands.Read More