Off-Modern Onions
Off-Modern Onions
plainreading
Your basic frustrated writer who hasn’t yet figured out where she falls on the spectrum between poetry and academia. Host of the reading-focused podcast Plain Reading. Gradually finding my groove with Mastodon.
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Ines Zgnoc/Amazone 7, The Different View. CC BY-SA 3.0 image via Wikimedia Commons. She wasn’t the first, of course, to put the thought into words, but Laura (Riding) Jackson asserted pretty clearly that if you have to explain what a...
The Outsiders in 1966. Public domain image courtesy KLRA Beat and Wikimedia Commons. Last night, I watched the first episode of Art21, which featured a bit on Louise Bourgeois—and then this morning, found David Byrne tossing out an aside...
Theo van Doesburg, "Base de la peinture concrète," Art Concret no. 1 (April 1930). Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. I started wondering a few months ago whether anyone was writing poetic and/or artistic manifestoes anymore. The...
Hermann Hesse looking serious. CC BY-SA 3.0 NL image courtesy Dutch National Archives and Wikimedia Commons. Two weeks away from the ol’ blog felt especially long, trapped as I was in a van with people half my age who were shit-talking...
J.-B. Madou, Le bon conseil (Good Advice), 1871. Public domain image courtesy loki 11 and Wikimedia Commons. If the title of a book a friend recently gave me was intended to be provocative, that intention surely succeeded for yours...
Co. Dublin, 1954. Courtesy National Library of Ireland on The Commons. Image with no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons. Marcel Bénabou tells us about the way his younger self pondered writing a grand epic which, centered upon his...
Colorado State University Libraries. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. I’ve written before about what I’ll call my ambivalence about genealogical research—or rather, how it often gets presented in the US American context, as a...
Gigi Ibrahim, Consumerism. CC BY 2.0 image via Wikimedia Commons. In lieu of a real post this week, I’ll offer highlights from the past few days, which has involved attempting to keep up with class assignments while embarking on a...
John Boyd, Argonauts Rowing Club Junior eight-man boat ca. 1925. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. When back in the fifties, Louse Bogan “asked a group of students, recently, to name some definite bodily rhythm which might...
T. S. Eliot expounds; Lord David Cecil wears a poker face. Public domain photograph taken by Lady Ottoline Morrell via Wikimedia Commons. Maybe it’s inevitable, when you read a lot of poetry criticism, to come across discussions of T. S....
Harald Slott-Møller, Spring. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. Well, it’s spring break, and none too soon—because friends, I am exhausted. Attempting to keep afloat in an increasingly difficult class filled with boisterous...
T. W. Rolleston, 1910. Image with no known restrictions via Internet Archive Book Images and Wikimedia Commons. I can’t remember what I was reading recently that referred to Alfred Watkins, the British photographer and amateur...
Ángel Zárraga, The Poet, 1917. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. I’ve begun to suspect that I enjoy reading talk about poetry more than I enjoy reading poetry itself. For one thing, the latter takes the pressure off my having to...
Camille Pisarro, L'Île La Croix, Rouen, 1888. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. Here’s something I don’t know how to work out: maintaining reverence for the planet and its forms and creatures without falling into schlock. And...
Closcope, Pandrosion the Mathematician. CC BY-SA 4.0 image via Wikimedia Commons. There’s to be no real discussion of weighty matters in this post. Rather, what follows is a simple, and probably too-personal-for-mass-interest,...