#julia martin

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"Through the millenia, it has known many names: Set, Surtur, Hel, Kutulu, Tiamat. The legends of this being stretch back beyond the memory of humankind. It is the Great Dark One." (Dell Harris cover art for Hellsgate by Julia Martin, supplement for Dark Conspiracy, GDW, 1992)

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Julia Martin, Julia Bredt and self dressed up, October 15, 1891. Photographed by Alice Austen.

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Julia Martin Nashville Arts Magazine

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Julia Martin

[soundslikenashville]

Music City Makers: Julia Martin Gallery

The Julia Martin Gallery in Nashville focuses on contemporary art exhibitions & fostering the work of both emerging and established artists.

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non-self poetry

“Martin: Charles Olson wrote in the sixties about the need for poetry to get rid of ‘the lyrical interference of the ego, of the subject and his soul”. Would this describe what you’re attempting to do? Snyder: Yes, I’m no interested in being a consistent speaking voice, speaking for my own sentiments and sensibilities. Martin: Because? Snyder: Because it’s not interesting. It’s like talking about yourself.  Martin: And what is interesting? Snyder: Talking about your nonself! When a bird flies across from one tree to another tree, you can be the bird flying across from one tree to another tree. You don’t have to think about the bird, how you feel about the bird. No difference between self and universe. So just shortcut that illusion” - “Nobody Home; Gary Snyder in conversation with Julia Martin”, pp. 43-44

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WISE OLD GUY ON FEMINISM (back in 1988).

MARTIN:  (…) Would you call yourself a feminist? SNYDER:  I don't think it would be appropriate for a man to call himself a feminist.  There are many women who wouldn't call themselves feminists.  So it's a role that's appropriate for women, and I support feminists, although I don't support all feminists.  I don't support feminists who are just out there to buy into the capitalist system and become managers.  That seems like a very revisionary form of feminism.  I don't necessarily support a feminism of women's uniqueness either.  I do feel that the force of feminism in, for example, Japanese culture is very important, is in some ways truly revolutionary, and is more unsettling to the culture than industrialization and modernization have been. MARTIN:  What about the questions feminism raises for Zen Buddhism, which has traditionally been very much a male line? SNYDER:  Zen teaching seems to be able to incorporate women easily, as in a lot of places in the States.  What's interesting is to hear what Zen women who practice Buddhism have to say, their views toward Buddhist practice and toward feminism.  There are some women who will say (having come from a feminist background) that they came to Buddhism because they needed a study of who they really were, without preconceptions, without a feminist or an antifeminist agenda.  To ask yourself "What is my nature really like?" without the presumption that it's going to be particularly female or male: to go beyond the gender side of the question and just look at what is, to observe what your mind and psyche does. ---Coyote-Mind, Gary Snyder in conversation with Julia Martin, Kitkitdizze, 1988 (excerpt from the book Nobody Home, Trinity University Press, 2014.)