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Haunted by Dead Souls and Lively Angels: Jennifer Homans’s “Mr. B: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century” [by Mindy Aloff]
Mr. B. airborne (left), and in a deep plié during a 1961 teacher workshop. Photograph © Nancy Lassalle George Balanchine (1904-1983) is generally considered the greatest–and, with 425 known works, the most prolific– choreographer…
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“One Plkus One” [haiku by David Shapiro]
it may be too hard to think of me as silence like thirsty flowers in the Luxembourg I paused to cry for hours beside patient friends…
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“One Plkus One” [haiku by David Shapiro]
it may be too hard to think of me as silence like thirsty flowers in the Luxembourg I paused to cry for hours beside patient friends…
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Schopenhauer & “The Will to Live” (on the day he was born, Feb. 22, 1788)
The Will to Live “They say that Schopenhauer is pessimistic. That is not saying very much. [His] is a grandiose and tragic vision which, unfortunately, coincides perfectly with reality.” – Witold Gombrowicz, A Guide…
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Schopenhauer & “The Will to Live” (on the day he was born, Feb. 22, 1788)
The Will to Live “They say that Schopenhauer is pessimistic. That is not saying very much. [His] is a grandiose and tragic vision which, unfortunately, coincides perfectly with reality.” – Witold Gombrowicz, A Guide…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Earlier this year, Knopf released a paperback/expanded edition of David Young’s Field of Light and Shadow: Selected and New Poems. The book is over 300 pages—spanning almost 60 years of writing—and a treasure trove…
