Hieronymus Bosch – A Window on God’s Creation
Tags/ Posted by Tony ThomasSince I was young, I've been the youngest and worshipped Venus in the sacred and fragrant colonnades of even her humblest serving maidscontinue reading this poem
Bosch eschewed the Italian emphasis on linear perspective and anatomical study in favour of his own version of space impregnated with spiritual or numinous force.
THE HOLOCAUST NOVEL OF THE CENTURY
Tags/ Posted by Tony ThomasLet me order my death as I would order a partycontinue reading this poem
The Invisible Bridge begins with the adventures of three talented, poor Jewish brothers from rural Hungary catapulted into the wider world because they are refused higher education at home.
A Question of Values, by Morris Berman
Tags/ Posted by Tony ThomasIt is always spring for the mantis, hope gushing from some pheromone fountain inside its tiny brain.continue reading this poem
Western life seems to be drifting toward increasing entropy, economic and technical chaos, ecological disaster and ultimately, psychic dismemberment and disintegration.
Mythology Never Dies
Tags/ Posted by Tony ThomasI am the unexpected bleeding stepping off the stagecoach unannounced in tight shoes and a christening dresscontinue reading this poem
The purpose of myth, according to the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, is “to strengthen tradition and endow it with a greater value and prestige by tracing it back to a higher, better, more supernatural reality of ancient events”.
