The Sun

by Czeslaw Milosz

All colors come from the sun. And it does not have
Any particular color, for it contains them all.
And the whole Earth is like a poem
While the sun above represents the artist.

Whoever wants to paint the variegated world
Let him never look straight up at the sun
Or he will lose the memory of things he has seen.
Only burning tears ( Read more... )

 Working on an essay today when I needed a term I couldn't conjure ( Read more... )

"Child of Europe" by Czeslaw Milosz, 1946 ( Read more... )

Bookmarking because it's beautiful, and apparently this is the only freaking poem you can get in English from this author because it was shown on a kdrama. >_<

“The Physics of Love ( Read more... )

Revenge by e.c.c.:

Revenge
Since you mention it, I think I will start that race war.
I could’ve swung either way? But now I’m definitely spending
the next 4 years converting your daughters to lesbianism;
I’m gonna eat all your guns. Swallow them lock stock and barrel
and spit bullet casings onto the dinner table;
I’ll give birth to an army of mixed- ( Read more... )

I'm reading an interesting, older book I've never heard of until recently by Jane Marcus called Art and Anger, which is basically feminist criticism about women's reading and criticisms of women's reading. Anyway in an essay towards the end she reproduces this fascinating poem by Catherine des Roches (c. 1555-84), from an unpublished translation by ( Read more... )

H/T the lovely browngirl who posted this in her lj. Needless to say, this poem isn't in any of my women's writing anthologies and now I am SO BITTER ( Read more... )

Megan Beech's spoken word ode:

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See also, Mary Beard, Troll Slayer.

Appearing on television made Beard famous in the U.K., but what has made her even more famous has been the suggestion, put forward by certain male observers, that she is too old or unprepossessing to be on television at all. A. A. Gill, the television critic for the Sunday Times ( Read more... )

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Fantastic Breasts and Where to Find Them by Brenna Twohy.

Slam poetry that starts off about Harry Potter fanfic erotica, slides into talking about mainstream porn and rape culture.

There are a hundred students in this round of workshops; there are four workshops of poetry, three of fiction, two of creative nonfiction, and then the lone "literary/book arts hybrid" class I'm taking. My class has 7 people in it, while the others have ~15 per. Consequently, over the last day and a half, I've explained what book arts are to about ( Read more... )