G.D. Burns

Poet, artist, musician of the village of Catskill, NY

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The original McGraw-Parry "Prose and Poetry for the Twelfth Year College Entrance Requirements in English" for Gilboa-Conesville Central School back in the year of our Lord 1930, the first full school year GCCS was open #gccs #gilboaconesvillecentralschooldistrict #mcgrawparry #guybrownwiser #thelwsingercompany #johnmilton #lallegro #miltonsminorpoems https://www.instagram.com/p/B5jP_lph91rsIn9ZHPaqGTJL8l8aqOZyrtNLQw0/?igshid=1d71g8kjlsvz7

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Second full-length manuscript done - now, to seek a home... https://www.instagram.com/p/BvGM0wkAoEXSG2FhGdmZVDSgbLv9ArqgGRNC1Y0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wtpi9s6y1pi8

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Happy hunting season https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp8QAQvAOcZxddccHf56XcPCdnJ8gmxrv875Nc0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1m9taim908tz3

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An old dream from 2016 #thegreatconversation #tenyearreadinglist #greatbooksfoundation

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New collage titled "Virgil's Maze of Man's Suggestibility"

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Two book cover designs using the same detail from Jacques Callot's etching of inhumanities during the Thirty Years' War titled 'Les Grandes Misères de la Guerre' - the left is Thomas Nashe's "The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Stories" (Penguin, 1985) and the right is H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen's "The Adventurous Simplicissimus" (University of Nebraska Press, 1962)

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Lines, brick and negative space, taken while visiting many homes for Catskill's annual town-wide yard sale last weekend

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Taters and Precious

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Double tap when you find the face

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When I stopped at the yard sale, only the Romantic in me knew that I'd be walking away with a box full of DeQuincey's complete works - FOR A DOLLAR #bibliophileproblems #dequincey #1897edition #yardsalefinds

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Desk arrangement of golden gifts, found treasure and missives of love, before the desk is sold

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...and then clouds broke open, rain fell, and a rainbow was chased

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Imagist interlude: "A Donnie Darko Easter"

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My results from the recent collage night #collagenight #catskillny #collageart #saveyourclippings #majordepression #transplatonic

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Map-making in the MAT program at Bard #bardmat #mapmaking #sensations #impressions #thegramscimonument #fredmoten

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"Remember Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to Say that Democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious or less avaricious than Aristocracy or Monarchy. It is not true in Fact and no where appears in history. Those Passions are the same in all Men under all forms of Simple Government, and when unchecked, produce the same Effects of Fraud Violence and Cruelty. When clear Prospects are opened before Vanity, Pride, Avarice or Ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate Phylosophers and the most conscientious Moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves, Nations and large Bodies of Men, never." - John Adams to John Taylor, 17 December 1814

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(G.D. Burns, Poet) New poem recorded as part of an on-going sequence