Showing posts with label Desire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Desire. Show all posts
Thursday, June 27, 2019

Sea-Witch

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Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Le Carre's "A Perfect Spy" is a Perfect Novel

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Le Carre's A Perfect Spy is, I hazard to claim, a perfect novel.  It carries the adult thesis that the crucial shapings of character ar...
Friday, April 19, 2019

The Telling

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The telling. That's what I like best about anything: stories, essays, novels, plays, epics.  That's what I love. How the makers...
Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Comfort for a Sore Throat

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A hot toddy and a good book: The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman. I think this is my third reading.
Friday, August 3, 2018

Frog-Man II

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Frog-Man Sculpted 2011 or earlier; Photos August 2018. Sculpture mix; glazed with transparent brown and (lightly, quickly...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Pinnacle

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I have taken so many shots of this pinnacle.  I really ought to check my archives and present a blogpost on the different moods, the ...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Sam Hamill: "The Nets"

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THE NETS Somewhere someone is untangling the heavy nets of desire beside a small fire at the edge of the sea. He works slowly, finger...
Sunday, May 6, 2018

SAPPHO: Poetry

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A few selections from the Greek poet Sappho (translated by Mary Barnard): #39 He is more than a hero He is a god in my eyes— the...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Class Planning

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Spring 2018: Why ever not?
Thursday, September 28, 2017

Dear Lord Byron . . . .

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I've been teaching some books about specific obsessions, and in order for my students to understand that I was not judging or maligning ...
Friday, July 28, 2017

What Nisus Said

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Nisus ait: 'dine hunc ardorem mentibus addunt, Euryale, an sua cuique deus fit dira cupido?' Nisus said, Do the gods add this he...
Friday, May 26, 2017

Keats and Yeats: Two Odes

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ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains          My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some d...

Robert Graves: Three Wanton Poems

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THE KISS Are you shaken, are you stirred     By a whisper of love, Spellbound to a word     Does Time cease to move, Till her calm g...
Saturday, April 29, 2017

Salt Longing

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Looking back: 8/8/16
Thursday, February 9, 2017

Note to a Friend

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I have a hankering for a paddle at Mendocino, just for the sheer practice and the place, but south and southwest swells make the north rou...
Saturday, December 24, 2016

Salt Joy: Or, Paddling

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The first drop? Note that JP has three crab traps on that kayak. A man and the bay. Paddle-time: heading into the future.

Yule-Tide Greetings

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May your yuletide be cheery, be bright, and be salty. ----- Heed the reefs not yet charted Seek that green isle beyond design -f...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Fool's Gold; Or, The Admonition

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How good is the book in your head--if it isn't on the page? What book? I don't see a book. In the head or in the heart? Page, ...
Friday, April 15, 2016

Whiskey Friday

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Or, The Devil Is In The Details Body English : sculpture mix; transparent brown and shino glazing. 20-minute exercise.
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

The Winding and Unwinding

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THE WINDING AND UNWINDING The shape of your thought Entices me Quite as much as The thought of your shape. Clay-minded, Bloody-brai...