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This essay is a homage to Adolfo Bioy Casares and also refers to other writers I enjoy.
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The Invention of Morel and its Context In his 1940 prologue to this celebrated novella by Adolfo Bioy Casares, Jorge Luis Borges exalts adventure stories and “works of reasoned imagination” –from G. K. Chesterton to Kafka…
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L’ORIGINE
Why do you allow it to dominate the brain, This feeling things have come to roost, right here and now? Like a writer out of style, steep yourself in porno, Morbidly refining what hardly seems worthwhile; The sad sperm swimming through … Continue reading
THE DEHUMANIZATION OF ART (1925) Jose Ortega y Gasset
This essay has been a major influence on my work and my thought. I read it in my twenties, and still value it greatly. Ortega has always been appreciated by US intellectuals, but is hardly ever cited by writers on art and … Continue reading
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Tagged Chateaubriand, Debussy, Joyce, Mallarme, modern art, modern poetry, Pirandello, Proust, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Romanticism, Stravinsky, Wagner, Wolfflin, Zola
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THE USE OF POETRY – A Lecture by Basil Bunting
drawing of Basil Bunting by Erin O’Brien Back in 1985, I found this Lecture in Writing Magazine 12, published in Vancouver BC. It made a big impression then and it still does – take on board his usage and turns … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab philosophy, Basil Bunting, Chopin, Ezra Pound, Louis Zukovsky, Scarlatti, T S Eliot, the use of poetry, troubadours, Wyatt
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THE ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE ART
Here is a Link to my book The Analysis of Performance Art and here is a link to a performance archive of the 1970s that I am featured on. There is also a site for The Theatre of Mistakes. Glimpses … Continue reading
Poetry International 1973
The youngest poet and the oldest in Poetry International 1973
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Anthony Howell, dungarees, Poetry International
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CATHAR COUNTRY
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They are here like us at Queribus And at Peyrepertuse, fiddling with their Camera batteries, dragging their red setters Up congested spirals onto views. When they meet each other unexpectedly Hyperbolic protests of astonishment Lose their…
Grotesque: Ancient and Modern
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“In the famous Kerch terracotta collection we find figurines of senile pregnant hags. Moreover, the old hags are laughing. This is a typical and very strongly expressed grotesque. It is ambivalent. It is pregnant death, a…
The Blog
Interaction’s what a blog’s about! Who posts exclusively For output? Nowadays, You go for input too, since it tells you How many views you’ve had. Marshal McLuhan got it right About the tv era, way back when We were all … Continue reading
Now up on The Poetry Archive! And an Error Rectified!
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The recordings I made of some of my poems, including “Innisfree”, are now online at the National Poetry Archive. The Archive has more material recorded, including the whole of “Silent Highway”. These recordings are now available for a…
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