by Harvey Lillywhite What Sitting Has Taught Me This feminine “spark,” though never directly defined, is described, at one point, as “the centre of some different order and system of … [Read more...] about What Sitting Has Taught Me
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The Constant Failure of the Everyday
by Harvey Lillywhite It ought to be on a beach with pure white sand, Basking or bobbing women and men Naked in the surf; or, on that bouldered coast Where my first ancestors among waves crashing So stunned by the barbaric invasion carved ships into Grandfather rocks so deeply even I would remember; Or, two miles high on the tip Of a high granite … [Read more...] about The Constant Failure of the Everyday
On Poetry
The Marginalization of Poetry in Contemporary Culture by Harvey Lillywhite Here is an essay (French essai, trial, attempt, from Old French, from essayer, to attempt, from Vulgar Latin exagiāre, to weigh out, from Late Latin exagium, a weighing : Latin ex- + Latin agere, to drive.) about how poetry has been marginalized in our … [Read more...] about On Poetry