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Tag Archives: spirituality
The Wrath of Divines
Like cartooning, the act of translation has proven dangerous at times. For his role in putting Christian scriptures into English, John Wycliffe’s long-dead bones were dug up, burnt, and chucked into the river by order of churchmen. … The act … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, language, miscellaneous, Pablo Neruda, personal, poetry, religion, society, Spanish-English, spirituality, translation
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A-Theology
A poke at Ludwig’s nonsense adumbrates an a-theology that circumvents the mortiferous belch of cassock-and-biretta evangels. There’s an amount of life which abounds so abundantly it’s incommensurate with measurement. It amounts to the livelong life force of aliveness that explodes … Continue reading
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Tagged language, love, miscellaneous, personal, religion, rhetoric, spirituality, writing
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Words of a Stabbing Victim
On Sept. 20, 1958, while signing copies of his first book “Stride Toward Freedom” in a Harlem department store, Dr. Martin Luther King was stabbed in the chest by a young woman. The weapon, a letter opener, grazed his aorta. … Continue reading
Posted in Quotations
Tagged America, coronavirus, culture, language, love, miscellaneous, poetry, society, spirituality, style
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Joy Hiding in Plain Sight
Retired doctor Jeff Kaufman often visits an American elm that escaped the devastation of Dutch elm disease because of its isolation. The 150-year-old tree stands near the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, 95 miles from Egremont, the nearest urban area. … Continue reading
Amen Thyself
Amen Thyself Kids are we of One High God or other.There are no atheists around a campfire.Praise the spook that hankers for a crown. An unborn baby drowned with its mother,Tipped from a rescue boat into the flood.Scream a prayer … Continue reading
‘Blurred Stupid Dulled’
Hilma af Klint inspires a certain perfervid evangelism which is diluted in this article by careless editing. The article cites a beautiful film by Halina Dyrschka about the visionary artist’s astonishing work. The beguiled film maker contracted [sic] MoMA to … Continue reading
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Tagged art, grammar, journalism, language, painting, rhetoric, spirituality, style, writing
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What Makes a Poem ‘Hard’?
“Syntax” is the answer to the fudgy question. It’s hard to reach image and reference through muddy syntax. In narrative and exposition, context comes to the rescue; in poetry often not, because a poet revels in flare-gunning lap dance moon … Continue reading
Posted in Anthology
Tagged Bible, grammar, language, lexicon, linguistics, poetry, reading, religion, rhetoric, spirituality, style, syntax, writing
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Poesis in the Age of Wienie Grease
I’ve discovered that what’s called poesis, said to be the making and shaping of poems — they must be shaped as well as made! — is not straightforward. For one, you have to follow your feelings rather than steer them. … Continue reading
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Tagged doggerel, language, personal, poetry, rhetoric, spirituality, writing
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Art Is God-Light
In my language, the one I recall now only by closing my eyes, the word for love is Yeu. And the word for weakness is Yếu.How you say what you mean changes what you say.Some call this prayer. I call … Continue reading
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Tagged art, doggerel, language, music, painting, poetry, rhetoric, spirituality, translation, writing
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‘There Are No Bright Lines Here’
Tish Harrison Warren, an Anglican priest, describes a recent baptismal service: Baptisms at our church are a mixture of solemnity and unbridled glee, often full of laughter and tears of joy. Those who were being baptized, or in the case … Continue reading →