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Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Lyrical Ballads 1798 and 1800

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Thanks to insistence of occasional contributor Sean Moreland, I've lately taken some interest in British romanticism. The impetus is a c...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Charles Bukowski and I Ranting Poems to the Sounds of Riots

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The Arab Spring ignited in Tunisia, demonstrations against anti-union laws in various parts of the US, right-wing violence in Norway, violen...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

The "Civilized" West vs. the "Uncivilized" Arabs

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It is very easy for Westerns to look at the carnage in Libya, the slaughter in Syria, Bahrain, and Yemen as distinctly Arab proclivities. Wh...
Monday, March 7, 2011

Aston: "Greed beyond Avarice"

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February's Monthly Review has a poem by H. Rae Aston, a sculptor, poet, and former journalist based near Montréal. It begins with the f...
Saturday, March 5, 2011

Libya and the Ongoing Revolution and Libyans

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Libya is in a life and death struggle between the pro and anti-Qaddafi forces within the country. According to the Hindustan Times of March...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

Not in Our Name: Who are We? Who is Obama?

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Today I'm tired and somewhat annoyed. US President Obama campaigned that he would bring change. Can we all agree he is a catastrophic di...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Nazim Hikmet: Marxist Turkish Poet Set to Music

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In 2001 the famous Turkish pianist Fazil Say composed an orchestra piece titled "Nazim." Nazim Hikmet Ran was a Marxist Turkish po...