You Think That’s Bad Review
Tags/ Posted by Nick MartinNothing is louder than snow falling / on the roof in the middle of the night // when you’re young.continue reading this poem
You might find ‘You Think That’s Bad’ on a table labeled, “Great Dad’s Day Read’s!” at Barnes and Nobel. That makes sense. Shepard’s stories are almost always told through the first person perspective of hyper-masculine protagonists–soldiers, mountain climbers, scientists, spies, and general adventurers.
THE HOLOCAUST NOVEL OF THE CENTURY
Tags/ Posted by Tony ThomasIf souls must be here they do not watch us even accidentally for a moment—not being subject to the laws of chance. With the kindly detachment of settlement house angels they overlook our lives.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 ThomasSuppose you are Dick, or any man, smitten with a certain woman.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.
Listening to Judy Chicago
Tags/ Posted by Maureen DoallasLike an old shoe molded to only one foot, I do have a thick hide that’s held up through years of nettling by tongues of other poets.continue reading this poem
Judy Chicago has collaborated with Prestel Publishers and art historian Frances Borzello to create an amazing discussion in her new book ‘Frida Kahlo – Face to Face’. Written to take the approach of Kahlo’s work and oeuvre as whole; to go beyond biography to reveal how Kahlo prefigured many foci of feminist art and broke the silence about the legitimacy of women’s experiences as subject for art.
