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Liberties of the Imagination: Poems by Joseph Harrison, commentary by Mary Jo Salter [part 3 of 5]
Today I want to comment on the ingenuity of just one poem in Joseph Harrison’s crown of sonnets, “As If.” This one is the third in a series of… twenty-two sonnets! All of them…
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Liberties of the Imagination: Poems by Joseph Harrison, commentary by Mary Jo Salter [part 2 of 5]
Today’s poem by Joseph Harrison, the second of five favorites I’ve chosen, has a title that invites us to consider one of Shakespeare’s tragic heroes. HAMLET It’s quiet here. A stoic rectitude Props up…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Sixty-Seven): Dylan Loring [by Angela Ball]
Pardon My French I couldn’t decide betweenFrench bread and French fries,sipping French roastI made in my French press,preparing to cook either breakfast or lunchfor the woman who began the previous eveningin a brown French…
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Liberties of the Imagination: 5 poems by Joseph Harrison, with commentary by Mary Jo Salter
Liberties of the Imagination: 5 poems by Joseph Harrison, with commentary by Mary Jo Salter (pictured left). Joseph Harrison (b.1957) has many admirers, but I’ve always felt that his works deserve a wider audience. Harrison,…
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Karisma Price: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________ This Is a Song for the Good Girl (Or the Lonely) I draw a black band on my arm with Sharpie Mourn…
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Vintage Noir (“Le Jour se leve”) and the exquisite ecstasy of paranoia (“Vertigo”) at the Film Forum [Nov. 2014]
Marcel Carne's little-shown pre-war classic "Le Jour se leve" is at the Film Forum on West Houston Street in downtown New York and must be seen by fans of Jean Gabin, admirers of Arletty…
