A Review of Paul Auster’s “Invisible”
Tags/ Posted by Mark KerstetterMy parents are still here due to the snow That's falling fatly on us in Cheyennecontinue reading this poem
Paul Auster’s fifteenth novel, Invisible, is a story about a man trying to tell a story. We see him as a twenty-year-old, and then as a sixty-year-old, struggling to get the story of his twenty-year-old self out. But a life cannot be bound to words, and will have to remain an enigma, invisible forever and ever. Auster explores this impossibility, this essential truth about ourselves and story telling, with all of the artistry of his sixty-three years.
The Art Instinct
Tags/ Posted by Tony ThomasNothing is louder than snow falling / on the roof in the middle of the night // when you’re young.continue reading this poem
The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution, by Dennis Dutton, Oxford University Press 2009. A review by David Maclagan.
Gyorgy Faludy Comes Home
Tags/ Posted by Thomas Ország-Land...there is always enough adoration, even in this jilted scrap heap of a world...continue reading this poem
BOOK after translated book, a soft-spoken poet who spent a long life writing in an awkward, minority language is taking his rightful place among the giants of world literature — even in his homeland.
The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang
Tags/ Posted by Gretta BarclayThe old woman hauled her bones here, where they hoist our carscontinue reading this poem
If you believe Lin Yutang, author of The Importance of Living, man is a curious wayward dreamer who is furiously pursuing all the wrong things. Yutang has a very specific philosophy for living life which will bring genuine contentment, and he begins with the idea of detachment, which is similar to Buddhist philosophy.
