Tragedy, it turns out, is a powerful literary form for dealing with posttraumatic fear.
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Got a Problem? Call a Poet
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Angus Fletcher, Aristotle, bibliotherapy, catharsis, literary technique, Oedipus, philosophy, posttraumatic fear, PTSD, Rhetoric, Sigmund Freud, sophists, Sophocles, Wonderworks Comments closed
St. Francis: Made for Beauty
St. Francis radically changed the way we see beauty and ourselves in relationship to beauty.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "As Kingfishers Catch Fire", "Francis Meets a Leper", "Saint Francis and the Birds", "St. Clare Dies at Her Mirror", "St. Francis and the Sow, Bonaventure, Clare, Dante, David Citino, Duns Scotus, Galway Kinnell, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Life of a Saint: After Giotto, Marilyn Nelson, Murray Bodo, Paradiso, Plato, Seamus Heaney, St. Francis, Thomas of Celano Comments closed
Rising Anti-Semitism, So Call the Golem
The Golem of Prague may be the forerunner of many comic book characters. With rising-Antisemitism, we still need him.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, anti-Semitism, comic books, Donald Trump, Fascism, golem of Prague Comments closed
Poetic Incentives to Take Long Walks
If you are a walker, read 17th century poet Thomas Traherne to deepen the experience.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged George Herbert, Nature, Thomas Traherne, Walking, William Blake, wonder Comments closed
Russia’s “Expendable” Invaders
Russia’s invading army regards certain men as expendable. I am reminded of the shrews in the “Redwall” books by Jacques.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Brian Jacques, casualties of war, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Redwall, Ukraine invasion, Vladimir Putin, war Comments closed
To Understand Trump, Read Gogol
To understand Trump’s con, read Gogol’s “Dead Souls.”
On Defending Books against Bullies
On book banning and how to respond to the banners.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Smut", Antonia Scatton, Beloved, Book banning, censorship, Tom Lehrer, Toni Morrison Comments closed
No One Understood the Final Meal
In this poem, Mark Jarman shows how the Last Supper was just like any other meal–until it wasn’t.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "No One Understood the Fiinal Meal", eucharist, Last Supper, Mark Jarman Comments closed
ChatGPT, Infernal Machine
ChatGPT is taking plagiarism to new levels. Shel Silverstein’s humorous poem mocks such machines but underestimates them.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Homework Machine", artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, Shel Silverstein Comments closed
