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Digitally Induced Affective Disorder and Possible Antidotes

30 November 2015 By knowlengr

Our attachment to digital forms of communication, especially smart phones, may be responsible for the emergence of symptoms that are strikingly similar to other affective disorders. To call it a Digitally Induced Affective Disorder (DIAD) is … [Read more]

The Earth’s Sweet Pull: Linda Gregerson’s Concision

29 November 2015 By darkviolin

A poetry collection of work spanning nearly nearly 40 years for any living poet deserves attention, but Prodigal (Martin Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) goes beyond satisfying collector lust. Linda Gregerson's collection represents … [Read more]

Inside “The House of Breath”

14 June 2015 By darkviolin

Reviewer Louis Bayard worries that William Goyen will continue to be lost "among the boldfaced names he fraternized with." If passages like the one he lifts from Goven's The House of Breath for a review of Clark Davis's biography It Starts with … [Read more]

A Voice for Employment Fairness: Farsighted, Faint

15 January 2015 By knowlengr

Allison Pugh's (@Allison_Pugh) sociology project, The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity paints a grim picture of work life in America and forecasts that it will get worse. She does not mention anything about it getting … [Read more]

Vague Justice in the Sea of Words

14 January 2015 By darkviolin

Writers like Kate Braverman and Ann Michaels demonstrated that it is possible to jump into hyperdrive from poetry to fiction and to preserve the musicality and concision of poetry in a sea of words that is fiction. It seemed fair to anticipate a … [Read more]

Sadism and the Art of Fiction

12 January 2015 By darkviolin

There is a mass grave outside Port-au-Prince in Haiti, where, as the Telegraph reported, "some of the more than 220,000 victims of the January 12, 2010 earthquake lie." As this review is being written, news outlets are doing their best to wrest … [Read more]

Many Voices of Marian McPartland Now Silenced
A musical voice can refer to a singer like Tony Bennett. Or it can refer to a voice in an orchestra of voices -- like Arturo Sandoval's trumpet.In the case of the late Marian McPartland, several voices that have sung together in perfect harmony have been silenced. It is a big loss in our small town.The […]
Nadeem Aslam: "The Opposite of War is Not Peace"
The Blind Man's GardenThe full quotation from Nadeem Aslam's The Blind Man's Garden (@AAKnopf): "The opposite of war is not peace but civilization, and civilization is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war."The New Yorker's "Briefly Noted" reviewer judges the writing to be "visceral but exquisite, emotionally affecting yet unsentimental."An excerpt:"Rohan looks out of the window, […]
Ex-Situ: The Violin
Promo for "The Violin" by Anna Clyne and Josh DormanAs part of New York City's River to River Festival, the Original Music Workshop presented "The Violin." The Original Music Workshop describes such events as those that:. . .take place in unexpected spaces, away from the Williamsburg site where OMW is constructing its heralded future home, […]
Violinist as Orchestra Symbol
The 10 June 2013 issue of the New Yorker featured a photograph by Gabriele Stabile of musician Erykah Badu and a violinist. In the periodical's "Goings on About Town," the violinist is unnamed, anonymous, but represents the Brooklyn Philharmonic with whom Badu was to play later in the month.
Very Short Fiction as Poetry?
So suggests the New Yorker's James Wood in a review (pay wall) of Jamie Quatro’s book of short stories (New Yorker 3/11/13). He writes:Short fiction is closer to poetry than to the novel, and very short fiction is even closer. Quatro has a poet’s compound eye for small forms, passing phrases, useful repetitions, fleeting images. In […]

Fearful Asymmetry: Melancholies of Knowledge
Melancholies of Knowledge is a collection that brings together a snapshot of perspectives near the end of the last century on the role of "literature in the age of science." The post Fearful Asymmetry: Melancholies of Knowledge appeared first on Poetry and Science.
Chapter IX: The Functions and Future of Poetry
A chapter by FSC Northrop published in 1947 sensed a moral imperative for poetry to embrace the reality uncovered by science. The post Chapter IX: The Functions and Future of Poetry appeared first on Poetry and Science.
The Subjugated Meaning of “Diversity”
Jonathan Cole offers a more powerful sense of "diversity" in university education - and what should be done about it. Interviewed by Leonard Lopate on WNYC 2016-01 The post The Subjugated Meaning of “Diversity” appeared first on Poetry and Science.
Glenmorangie and the New Makers
Glenmorangie campaign in 2016-04: An exciting new generation of makers is merging creative ambition with the disciplined rationale of hard science. The post Glenmorangie and the New Makers appeared first on Poetry and Science.
Science Gallery International
SNIP from the Science Gallery International portal: Science Gallery International is a non-profit company headquartered in Dublin and charged with supporting the development of the Global Science Gallery Network. Our misison […] The post Science Gallery International appeared first on Poetry and Science.