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Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Friday, August 2, 2024

Very Nice Little Post on Lawyers & Poets

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                                                                        From "Lawyer Poets"                                       ...
Friday, June 16, 2023

Therapeutics of Powerful Verse in Powerful Translation

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The therapeutic powers of poetry can be unparalleled. To cross languages, such powerful verse requires translation of no less merit. Transla...
Sunday, December 23, 2018

Musical Score for "The Flood" from "Charms and Knots"

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Click here for a link to Thomas Swenson's Musical Score for "The Flood."
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

A Sonnet on the Jerusalem Cross

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For me, the Jerusalem Cross is endlessly inspiring:   Christ before Paul; the Kingdom that’s within; the wisdom of the Buddha; Will...
Sunday, March 5, 2017

Gorsuch and Originalism: Some Critiques from Logic, Scripture, and Art

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(This blog combines, expands, and end-notes two prior blogs)
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Rethinking The Elect

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                            The Elect Take that long-suffering slave:   if she instead Were master, could descent dissent and shed ...
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Sunday, February 5, 2017

Ekphrasis & Prose: Sonnet Translations of Poe & Hawthorne

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I sometimes wonder whether a prose piece should have been verse from the outset.  Could the deep meaning have been more effectively capture...
Saturday, January 7, 2017

Two Performance Review Mantras (“Mercy and Truth Are Met Together; Righteousness & Peace Have Kissed”)

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I. Mantra For Myself I smile if I have shown a light. I smile if I if I have aimed at right. I smile if I have done...
Sunday, October 2, 2016

Blake Within Blake Within Blake Without End

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As I have written before , the great William Blake magnificently employed signs beyond mere words in his poetry.  His powerful illustrati...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

Beyond Words Alone: Poets as Artists of the Intentional

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  In his wonderful The New Book of Forms , Lewis Turco tells us that poets “ focus on mode , on language itself.”   Focusing ...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

LBJ's Villanelle: Old Chamberlain & Chambers of the Heart (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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The Johnson name shall live forevermore At home and overseas.  Of virile heart, I shall not risk the loss of any war. I’ll s...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

Ballade of Charles Sanders Peirce: That Common Measure of the Number Three (An Addition to "The Apology Box")

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      Ballade of Charles Sanders Peirce A "candle" burns a finger, lights a room-- The only sense that "candle"...
Friday, July 15, 2016

Pope Urban II's Double Sonnet: Red Fields and Lucious Palaces (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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        Pope Urban II’s Double Sonnet                                I. Although we were God's advocate below, We were a c...
Monday, July 11, 2016

Wittgenstein's Sonnet: No Pictures See Themselves (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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     Wittgenstein’s Sonnet When I was young, words worked a different way. We hung them round like pictures on a wall To replica...
Saturday, July 9, 2016

Double Sonnet of William James: Grace That Brings Good Order in the Head (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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            Double Sonnet of William James                                    I .    Descartes, pure mind and body can't ...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Ishmael's Sonnet: Built As "Normal" Boys (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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            Ishmael’s Sonnet                          They called me Ishmael.   I was a first Who wrestled with the "bastard...
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