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Break, Blow, Burn : Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World’s Best Poems

by James Hollis

April 10th, 2007

Blest be anyone who, in this age of meretricious materialism, nascent narcissism, and hapless hedonism, returns us to poetry, to the joy of language for its own sake, for its distilled passion, and for its summons to discipline, in both writer and reader.

Camille Paglia Discusses Her New Book Break, Blow, Burn

by Paul Comstock

March 31st, 2007

“American culture is swamped with dizzying media images, which have become a primary form of communication. Language has become increasingly debased. It proliferates on the Web but in rushed, banal form. Newspapers and magazines no longer have a concern for style of expression.”

Between Alpha and Omega: Some Observations on Poetry and Poetry’s Task in our Time

by Jascha Kessler

March 26th, 2007

We lived heretofore in the multitude of villages scattered world-wide amongst the ruins of the Tower of Babel. Civilization’s tapestry, its complicated patterns interwoven from multitudes of poets and poetries, once covered their walls and held our attention. Will there come to be in the global village but one faceless, boring bard who speaks with the reduced, infinitely reductive voice the simplified and platitudinous messages of the Media?

Borges: A Poet’s Quest for Simplicity

by Miha Pintaric

March 26th, 2007

Simplicity requires oneness. If you want to be someone, you are two and you are not simple. If you want to be simple, you are also two and you are not simple.

Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg

by Graham Vickers

March 26th, 2007

The time between New Year’s 1956 and April 1958 was a period of general uncertainty and renewed spiritual doubt for Neal Cassady. He remained haunted by Natalie’s death.

Goethe and Tagore – Unexpected Interests

by Nandan Datta

March 26th, 2007

Goethe and Tagore, separated by time and contexts, but joined in their great felicity over the literary idiom, show similar quests in the understanding of the sciences. It is alluring to jump to the conclusion of a phony and fashionable unity; that science and arts are the same after all; and literature, music, mathematics, and the physical sciences are all manifestations of the common muse.

Festival of the Earth: Rabindranath Tagore’s Environmental Vision

by Nandan Datta

March 16th, 2007

I knew it occurred every Autumn. And every Autumn I intended to go. And after many trials and as many errors, I finally made it one August. It was the festival of the earth.

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