James Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) On the Romantic poet John Keats’ tombstone in the…
My mother at ninety years-old While days like Mother’s Day are corny, they do elicit memories. I think of my…
“Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past. What…
Royal Opera House Covent Garden ‘Scene from Goethe’s Faust’ by Edward Henry Corbould, 1852 “All things transient are but a…
Nietzsche was right about writers when he said their work is a personal confession, “a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.” No doubt this is true for me.
The following article, in a slightly different form, appears in my new book, At the Lost and Found (Clarity Press)…
We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming public…
“Accomplished fingers begin to play./Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,/Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.” – W. B. Yeats,…
Art requires the use of imagination, but so does political and social analysis. But imagination is just a first step;…