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Head, Heart, Foot: On Poetry & Tennis (by Kate Daniels)
John Crowe Ransom] has a wonderful line: what a poet must have in the right order is the head, the heart, and the foot. That’s a physical description of a rhythmic and intellectual activity,…
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SNEAK PEEK: The Best American Poetry 2012 (click pic and scroll down)
With bonus poems from 2011: — sdh
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Tocqueville on “Democratic” Literature
<<<Democratic literatures are always crawling with authors who see literature as nothing more than an industry, and for every great writer there are thoiusands of retailers of ideas.>>>Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (trans.…
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The News and the Weather [by DL]
When you read a newspaper after two weeks of shunning any,you may get excited at first (Bristol Myers develops anti-cancer medication without debilitating side-effects of chemo; professional hackers in Idaho are sabotaging Iran's nuclear…
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A Feast of Vermeers plus Fragonard — and Richter: Girls Reading [by DL]
Tom Clark's blog today features a gallery of paintings by Vermeer and such others as Pieter de Hooch, Pieter Elinga, Gabriel Metsu plus a mighty fine Fragonard from 1770 and a recent Gerhard Richter…
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“Can’t act. Slightly bald. Also dances.”
George Bernard Shaw famously remarked that dancing is "the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music." For proof, just watch this Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers scene from the 1934 film "Night…
