What stood out to me most in M.C. Escher's "Sky and Water II" was the fluidity and seamlessness of transformation. The form of the contrapuntal works in similar ways for me—it allows for possibility, it allows for journey as readers choose to read it any which way. There are so many ways of looking at "Sky and Water II," just as I continue to discover ways to read "Creation Myth" (most recently, diagonally) and it's this excitement of (re)creation and (re)discovery that feels important to me.Kanika Ahuja on "Creation Myth" |
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"The Humanities Are Worth Fighting For"
"It is both infuriating and disheartening to witness the real-time dismantling and destruction of the infrastructure that afforded scholars like me a top-notch humanities education and secure employment. We must never accept this destruction. The public discourse about our fields can be very poor, and we lack the collective coherence to reflect our common knowledge in ways that can significantly shape public perception."
via LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Lloyd Wallace on Charles Simic's The World Doesn’t End
"It’s days like this that I get most upset that I will one day die. It’s also days like this I feel most fortunate to have a book like Charles Simic’s The World Doesn’t End to carry with me through my days—a book which, for all the violence it contains, all the liquid strangeness, all the pain, has always seemed to me to look at death with a steady, if somewhat smoky, optimism." |
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