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Author: Mitch Sisskind
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Author: Mitch Sisskind
Granada Related Stories What a swell party this is. . . Go to Source Author: The Best American Poetry
Negativity is not always overtly depressive, Positivity is not always overtly happy. Negativity eats away, piece by piece. It hides in the banal. Its disguised by layers of colour, Noise, applause. Negativity is drip fed, unnoticed. The bland The ordinary The acceptable Even the comfortable. Negativity keeps you in your place, Convinces you How good…
Who doesn’t love the parodies Lewis Carroll inserted in the Alice books? What student of the late Henry James wouldn’t laugh at (and with) Max Beerbohm’s “Mote in the Middle Distance”? A chapter of Ulysses recapitulates the evolution of English prose styles via parody. There are delightful self-parodies, conscious (Oscar Wilde) or unconscious (Dwight D….
Kids in the yard got nothing on me, I’m not it either When I tell them they look at me with confusion, then slowly back away. The post Not It | Alan Inman appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
O, for a quaff of Provence after the fun of Brahms’s “Academic Festival Overture as conducted joyously by Leonard Bernstein baton in hand as if he’s dancing bringing back college days and drinking songs on bassoons and clarinets: it always lifts my spirits: ten merry minutes culminating in the all-time greatest rendition of Gaudeamus…
The best defense of Lionel Trilling that I have read — and Trilling needs defenders at a time when he is routinely patronized if not ignored — is Adam Kirsch’s new book, Why Trilling Matters (Yale University Press). Trilling’s The Liberal Imagination (1950), a gathering of essays on subjects ranging from Scott Fitzgerald to Freud,…