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from Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, Peter Turchi

#lit #literature #peter turchi #maps of the imagination

A poem only lives when it has a soul to reside in. The poet, however, cannot force these poems into the beings of others. Others have to be willing to take the poems inside. Poetry is not a state, or a thing, or something to be studied. It is a basic form of communication requiring one who is willing to speak and one who is willing to listen and not fear the consequences of that listening.

from Julius Lester’s Introduction to Some Changes by June Jordan

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"Language Barrier," Alina and Jeff Bliumis (2008)

#art #sculpture #saatchigallery #London #translation #gallery

Anna Akhmatova as drawn by Amedeo Modigliani l: "Woman Reclining on a Bed" (c. 1911) r: "Standing Nude in Profile with a Lighted Candle" (c. 1911)

#Anna Akhmatova #Modigliani #Estorick Collection #London #art #literature #poet #drawing

Seamus Heaney, Pura López Colomé, and Hans van de Waarsenburg: IN MEMORIAM JOSEPH BRODSKY, The Maastricht International Poetry Nights, 2000

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"Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn," Ai Weiwei (1995)

#art #performance art #ai weiwei #Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn #GIF

"They Feed They Lion" by Philip Levine — a choral reading by the students of Ishion Hutchinson's Intro. to Creative Writing class at Cornell University, 18 Feb. 2015

#poetry #performance #Philip Levine #They Feed They Lion #cornell university

A selection of covers from Philip Levine's books (U.S. editions) and pamphlets (U.K. editions) spanning his body of work

#poetry #book covers #Philip Levine #lit

John Donne, "poet and divine"

#John Donne #London #poet #poetry

American Poetry Now, edited by Sylvia Plath, published in 1961 (full text here)

#poetry #anthology #Sylvia Plath #American Poetry Now #poet

"Knees of a Natural Man" by Henry Dumas

#henry dumas #poem #poetry #Poetry Magazine

Homer on papyrus at the Neues Museum, Berlin: 2. Iliad, Book 21-23; 3. Iliad, Book 8

#Neues Museum #Berlin #Iliad #Homer #poetry #poem #papyrus

"The Dragon" by Brigit Pegeen Kelly (via Carl Phillips)

#poem #poetry #The Dragon #Brigit Pegen Kelly #Carl Phillips #The Art of Daring

The Shop-boy with the Wheelbarrow

by Umberto Saba It's good to recover in ourselves lost loves, or reconcile ourselves to an affront, but if life pent up inside weighs you down, take it out of doors. Throw open the windows, or go down into the crowd; you'll see how little it takes to cheer you up: an animal, a game, or, dressed in blue, a shop-boy with a wheelbarrow clearing the street with a loud voice, who, if he finds the slightest downward slope, runs no more, but flies. The streets are full of people at that hour who don't keep quiet after dodging him. The noisier the uproar and the wrath, the more he swings his hips and sings.

#poetry #Umberto Saba #translation

"TV project Self Burial," Keith Arnatt (1969)

#art #conceptual art #MoMA library #Keith Arnatt #self-burial

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The geography of Dante's Divine Comedy as sketched by Albert Ritter

#art #dante alighieri #poetry #inferno #divine comedy #purgatorio #paradiso

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