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How I see this journal
I am advised that the best blogs are focused. But I want this site to reflect the diversity of my interests – poetry, dance, performance art, essays and music. Over the years, I have become reconciled to being a … Continue reading
Posted in art, Dance, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged Anthonyhowelljournal, Jack of all trades, poem, Shiva
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This essay is a homage to Adolfo Bioy Casares and also refers to other writers I enjoy.
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 – over the psychological … Continue reading
Posted in Essays
Tagged Bioy Casares, Borges, Goethe, Gustav Meyrink, Jane Bowles, Marcel Schwob, Robbe-Grillet, Walter Owen
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Zaz
Well I’m often a bit slow to pick up on things, but right now Zaz is my big discovery. Her singing makes me cry. Thanks, Jenny, for introducing me to this marvelous young chanteuse! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ9zeDd0mpg
A Thought
It’s fucking hard work being a beggar in Paris: It takes more out of you than any conventional job To scratch interminably and with increasing violence At the old itch, to lie shivering in rags On the pavement for twenty-four … Continue reading
Traumerei – performed by Tango Schumann
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Anthony Howell, Lindi De Angelis, Schumann, Tango to classical music
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The Talisman
Once, she said, you used a word I didn’t so much mind. Hmm, but what was it? None of those put forward: x Something airbrushed out Of my vocabulary; So should I chant a litany, Trawl for turns of … Continue reading
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