Matt Duckworth Underwater

Art, Book reviews, Ceramics, Photographs, Postcards, Quick Fiction, Quotations, and (Usually Aquatic) Reflections. (P.S. This blog looks better in the web version.)

Friday, September 29, 2017

Dear Lord Byron . . . Postscript

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Friend: What was it? Do you know now? Me: I wanted to be able to say that I knew what Byron thought and felt and meant in any given mom...

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 ...

Missing the Muses

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Salt water; clay; blank pages and time; a new album to spark my own lyrics to titles and tunes; and a good book of poetry or prose to k...

Sunday, September 24, 2017

Strange Clay

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Fishfolk, werefish, not quite sure. 2015 clay-play.

Graves: "Mermaid, Dragon, Fiend"

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MERMAID, DRAGON, FIEND In my childhood rumors ran Of a world beyond our door— Terrors to the life of man That the highroad held in sto...

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Dumas' The Three Musketeers (novel and films)

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My favorite version--after reading Alexandre Dumas' classic novel The Three Musketeers --to watch: Richard Lester's version (scripte...

Saturday, September 16, 2017

Dougie MacLean's "Leis A Lurighan"

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On the ocean o‘he Waves in motion o‘ho Not but clouds could we see O'er the blue sea below Islay loomin‘ o‘he In the gloamin‘ o‘ho...

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Matt Duckworth: San Francisco; East Bay, CA, United States; Heed the reefs not yet charted Seek that green isle beyond design

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