Hieronymus Bosch – A Window on God’s Creation
Tags/ Posted by Tony ThomasEverything was blank, empty and perfect, and it was my job to keep it that way.continue 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 ThomasI went through there once on the train. It was shimmering palace and palm and bright and jutting and I wanted to stop; why didn't I? Why don't we stop?continue 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 ThomasA knee of stars presses down on my throat.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 ThomasKeys rattle on the way down to join the coffee grounds, guts and trash for the haruspex.continue 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”.
