"The flute sings of an ancient riverbead one hundred fathoms deep, far below the Potaro River that runs to the Waterfall. Two rivers then. The visible Potaro runs to the Waterfall. The invisible stream of the river of the dead runs far below, far under our knees. The flute tells of the passage of the drowned river of the dead and the river of the living are one quantum stream possessed of four bnks. We shall see!"So deep, so far below, is...
Sunday, 31 July 2011
Quote: Wilson Harris
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Posted in black people, British, Caribbean, experimentalism, fiction, latin america, Wilson Harris
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Friday, 29 July 2011
Recent iPhone Drawings
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Here are a few recent iPhone sketches. This summer I've usually spent most of my commuting (light rail, subway, etc.) time reading rather than sketching, but I have knocked off a few of these just to keep my fingers nimble. I haven't carried the iPad with me in a while, but when I gather a few more iPad drawings I'll post those too. Enjoy!Man on subway (iPhone sketch)Man on PATH (iPhone sketch) [he actually reminded me of a young James Earl Hardy]Man...
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Poems: William Butler Yeats & Federico García Lorca
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Apropos of the current geopolitical economic crises, here are two poems that came to mind recently as I thought about the craziness we're witnessing. They both speak for themselves, so I won't provide a long introduction for either. The first, a standard of English literature classes, is Irish Nobelist poet and playwright William Butler Yeats's 1919 poem "The Second Coming," which he originally published in The Dial in 1920, and later included...
Posted in apocalypse, economics, Federico García Lorca, history, poetry, William Butler Yeats
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Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Debt-Limit Ceiling Blues (Or Obama the Moderate Republican, Revisited)
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Though the looming disaster of the US Congress's failure raise the debt-limit ceiling, a procedural vote that has been fairly routine in the past, has been a topic I've debated writing about for weeks now, what provoked today's post was seeing yet again in a New York City MTA station--23rd St., at 6th Avenue to be exact--a young mother, with children (this young woman had both a 5-6 year old and an infant who could have been no more than half a year...
Monday, 25 July 2011
Random Photos
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Here are a few photos from the last month or so, in and around the Big Apple. Enjoy!The new Freedom Tower, from the west, near Poets HouseThis summer's first batch of blackberries from the gardenFresh lettuce from the gardenThe radiant Tayari Jones, signing copies of her superlative new book, Silver Sparrow, at McNally-Jackson BookstoreMusicians playing the theme song for the show Curb Your Enthusiasm, near Herald SquareMomusChelsea décollageJapanese...
Sunday, 24 July 2011
Same Sex Marriage Begins in NY + Amy Winehouse RIP + Norway's Right-Wing Terrorist
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Siegal and Kopelov,Jason DeCrow/APSame-sex marriages have begun in New York State, and New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo, has even proclaimed July 24 the Day to Commemorate Marriage Equality. Kitty Lambert and Cheryle Rudd were the first same-sex couple married in the state, shortly after midnight at Niagara Falls' State Park's Luna Island, the picturesque falls behind them. New York City's orderly process added the newest entrants to the marriage...
Posted in Amy Winehouse, DOMA, marriage equality, New York, Norway, politics, right-wing, same-sex marriage, terrorism
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Saturday, 23 July 2011
Harlem Book Fair, 2011
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Today C and I headed up to Harlem to attend the annual Harlem Book Fair (HBF). Sponsored by QBR: The Black Book Review and located along several blocks of 135th Street near the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, at Malcolm X Boulevard, HB brings together publishers of all sizes, from major houses to single-volume self-published authors; readers from across the New York area; and arts and crafts vendors. ...
Posted in african american literature, books, Harlem, Harlem Book Fair, New York, writing
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