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Each holding a corner of the rug, they carry him, sleeping, ashore.
Finally, he is home.
On the dock, as the men loaded the ship to the sound of thunder, he looked to his island, invisible on the horizon, and clenched a thick fist. The smell of his land, carried on the wind, inspired memories of another [...]
Public Library 26.5
“The Hollow Men” as hypertext. Eliot’s poem with clickable referencing. More evidence that Modernist literature was made to be hypertexts. Pound hyperpoems anybody?
Art vs. Laundry. Is poetry, or art in general, really that important? Stephen Burt investigates. Via The Poetry Foundation
An author risks his life in pursuit of fixers in football. Article about a book [...]
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Materials of art
Words are perhaps the hardest of all material of art: for they must be used to express both visual beauty and beauty of sound, as well as communicating a grammatical statement.
From Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry by T.S. Eliot.
For modern admirers – Still Life, Breakfast with Glass of Champagne and Pipe
Detail of Still Life, Breakfast with Glass of Champagne and Pipe by Jan Davidsz. de Heem. Image courtesy of Liechtenstein Museum.
Mid breakfast, pomegranate opened. Lemon peeled, bread roll broken.
For modern admirers the painting simply is, it is as if it never not was. At no time in history were we without this. Contemporary eyes can’t [...]
Examining the art of Milan Kundera’s novels
Introduction
Milan Kundera’s ‘Dialogue on the art of the novel’ from the 1988 book of essays, The Art of the Novel, is a number of things. It is a discussion on the novel as an art form, on the history of the novel and its evolution as an explanation or representation of the self. It is [...]
Posted in Inion Also tagged art of the novel, david malouf, essay, Milan Kundera, novel writing, novelists, opinion, the self Leave a comment
The paradox of art
Good art – art’s aim, as far as we’re concerned – successfully aesthicises the human experience. This kind of art, the good kind, speaks to you and reminds you that you are both alive and an individual. In it, you see something of yourself.
Yet it is made for the masses and is not bound by [...]
A history of expression
Long ago (I use the notion of time because it is something we believe we understand and because, quite simply, it was long ago, unfathomably so) there was a God.[1] This God (to refer to this entity as ‘God’ is wrong, but it is the closest concept we have to what this entity is) was [...]
A serious science – Ezra Pound on the arts