February 2012
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WatchTiptoeing up a tightrope en pointe while i’m spinning its web into existence up up and i don’t know where (as usual?) feels like now more than ever. And as i sit waiting in the limbo snow to be spirited away to AWP 2012 i can think of nothing more appropriate art-magics then to be giving our RPM 2012 challenge my first listen. Thank you Army of Broken TOys. i am at once feeling like...
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May we never ever forget we are constantly inventing our realities, every moment.
(tweeted this note to self/world/heart yesterday. drill a constellation into skull. / img is Dali’s Alice)
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from Paula, by Isabel Allende
(p. 50-1)
“My childhood was a time of unvoiced fears: terror of Margara, who detested me, fear that my father would come back to claim us, or that my mother would die or get married; fear of the devil, of my uncles’ games of Ruffin, or of the things bad men can do to little girls. Don’t ever get into an automobile with someone you don’t know, Don’t speak to...
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from Unpacking The Boxes by Donald Hall
It was a letdown returning to classrooms and faculty meetings, to office hours and papers and cocktails after the game. From six to eight in the morning it was still poetry, and I finished my third book of poems. Sometimes it was hard to get started. To warm up, I began a comic blank-verse narrative— a few lines before going back to free verse— out of a medieval fabliau. I found the...
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A Few Words on the Soul by Wislawa Szymborska
A Few Words on the Soul
by Wislawa Szymborska
translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh
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We have a soul at times.
No one’s got it non-stop,
for keeps.
Day after day,
year after year
may pass without it.
Sometimes
it will settle for awhile
only in childhood’s fears and raptures.
Sometimes only in astonishment
that we are old.
It rarely lends a hand...
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"We have a soul at times. No one’s got it...
Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel-Winning Polish Poet, Dies at 88
By RAYMOND H. ANDERSON, The New York Times
Published: February 1, 2012
Wislawa Szymborska, a gentle and reclusive Polish poet who won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on Wednesday in Krakow, Poland. She was 88.
Wislawa Szymborska with her Nobel Prize medal in 1996.
The cause was lung cancer, said David A. Goldfarb, the...
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"Yeti, down there we've got Wednesday, bread and...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/her-secretary-says-that-polands-1996-nobel-winning-poet-wislawa-szymborska-has-died-at-88/2012/02/01/gIQAzfFMiQ_story.html
Poland’s 1996 Nobel winning poet Wislawa Szymborska has died at 88
By Associated Press, Published: February 1
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s 1996 Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, whose simple words and playful verse...