© Katharina Hesse. Baby at the ocean. From her essay “By the Sea.”
A few abiding pursuits: poetry, photography and we'll see what else. Pray for humor as much as you do rain. But if you're lowlands, just the first.
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May 23, 2012
May 22, 2012
© Katharina Hesse. North Korean activist. From her essay “Borderland.”
May 21, 2012
May 21, 2012
May 17, 2012
Glass House
Everything obeyed our laws and
we just went on self-improving
till a window gave us pause and
there the outside world was, moving.
Five apartment blocks swept by,
the trees and ironwork and headstones
of the next town’s cemetery.
Auto lots. Golf courses. Rest homes.
Blue-green fields and perishable vistas
wars had underscored in red
were sweeping past,
with cloudscapes, just
as if the living room were dead.
Which way to look? Nonnegative?
Nonplussed? (Unkilled? Unkissed?)
Look out, you said; the sight’s on us:
If we don’t move, we can’t be missed.
by Heather McHugh
May 13, 2012
“What I would say is this: Writing poems doesn’t make you a poet … It is only with poetry, for some reason, that everyone wants to believe they can try their hand at it once in a while and be considered, can call themselves a poet … It’s a craft. It’s an art. It’s a skill. It is not therapy, and it is not compensation for terrible things in one’s life. It is a thing in itself. You devote yourself to being an instrument of it, or you wander forever in the belief that it is a form of “self-expression.” … And I explained very clearly my opinion of what I think a poet, an artist is. Someone who puts this thing first.”
—Franz Wright
May 12, 2012
© Stacy Kranitz from her project Regression to the Mean.
May 11, 2012
© Stacy Kranitz from her project Regression to the Mean. It’s well worth reading her introduction to it—so much intelligence is included in her approach to shooting. It amounts to something thought out but not formulaic. Drawn to stereotypes, she aims over and over both to capture how they are rooted in reality and to figure out if there are versions of them that sidestep reality.
May 10, 2012
Seems as if the charm of Vivian Maier doesn’t wear off, but in fact deepens with every essay. This one on LensBlog outlines her two biographers’ journey into the places she lived in and loved in France. The book they writing together is Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows. Pre-order here.
May 10, 2012
TateShots video interview with spiky, tough, grumpy, tender Mr. Sun Deck (aka Maurice Sendak). When I told my daughter that the guy who’d written Outside Over There and others of our books had died and that he was called Maurice Sendak, she let out a long breath and said “Good name.”
Now that Sendak is dead, I will have to read about the life of William Blake to get closer to him.
Meanwhile, the Colbert interviews are the best.
May 9, 2012
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© Sylvia Plachy. I’m saying the lower is a cow.
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