Tag Archives: Proust
“To Contradiction” (My India Tour Continued) by Zireaux
A distant homeland, far-off terra. And when I spoke to little Clara on Sheela’s cell-phone yesterday, she asked me why I’ve kept away. “My work,” I wept. “How’s your brother?” “He’s fine,” she said. My Clara’s smart. I spoke of … Continue reading
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The Poet as Absent-Minded Neuroscientist
Selected for Immortal Muse by Zireaux (read Zireaux’s comments on this poem) Lines from Philip Larkin’s “The Whitsun Weddings” and Vladimir Nabokov’s “Pale Fire” Here’s Larkin’s narrator in “The Whitsun Weddings” (you can listen to the entire poem here): At … Continue reading
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Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism, by John Updike, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007, 705 pages
Is there a living writer whose achievements are so much taken for granted as John Updike’s? History is fertilized with unknown masters; but what about recognized masters who are under-appreciated? What happens to such fruit? How can any literary award’s … Continue reading
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