or Why Kevin Costner Baseball Movies are about More than Baseball The best baseball movies are seldom just about baseball. Baseball may serve as a setting or a plot device, but the story itself is about something more than baseball. Field of Dreams (another Kevin Costner movie) isn’t about baseball as much as it is... Continue Reading →
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A selection for National Poetry Month: Barfly with Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, and Alice Krige The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes Paradise Lost by John Milton
literary criticism: the art or practice of judging and commenting on the qualities and character of literary works
The Lust for Tragic Spectacle
Sylvia Plath's "Aftermath" and the Tragedy Lookie-Loos I am a avid reader of poetry but April, National Poetry Month, is a time for a closer look and a bit of introspection when it comes to my shelf of poetry books. I pulled Sylvia Plath's The Colossus and Other Poems the other day and thumbed through... Continue Reading →
An afternoon of black coffee and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. A solid pairing for National Poetry Month.
Poems & Poets: The Mix Tape
April is poetry month I figured it would be fun to kick of National Poetry Month with a Poems & Poets Mix Tape https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Am4snY3fmaqt2KaAphP1s?si=714f-TheRg-vB42bT9GzNg
On Criticism
"My words will either attract a strong mind or offend a weak one." -Anne Sexton-
Koba the Dread
The Pinnacle of Unpersoning In a time of unpersoning and a culture of cancelation it may serve us well to review (or study for the first time) a bit of history. There is one individual from the last century that is worth a closer look if you are interested in the concept of canceling somebody.... Continue Reading →
When defining what is literature (art) which is more important: technical characteristics aesthetic considerations
This was a dark time for those of us of a certain age.
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