Category Archives: Literature/poetry/spoken word

rizal : touch him not

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) …José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda, AKA José Rizal (1861-1896)! Author, poet, essayist, correspondent, patriot, revolutionary founder of La Liga Filipina, the civic organization that gave birth to … Continue reading

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where you wanna go with the men from uncool

To see unfamiliar emotional reality behind the facade of familiar material appearances. To somehow counter the nightmare of the pervasive material appearance. Obviously, the word spirituality has some some sappy cliched references and its meaning has not the same relational … Continue reading

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eye of the tyger

William Blake saw heaven in a speck of dust. Toying on the brink of madness, he always seemed to stop just short of leaping off the cliff, of sacrificing himself to some form of wish fulfilling fantasy. An enigma of … Continue reading

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posing with the circus animals

A dual nature. The intertwined carnality and nobility. William Butler Yeats. With age, his imagery turned sensual and direct. A wild wicked old man he would call himself, who regretted the celibacy of his youth and for whom the act … Continue reading

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blue ribbon tank: hand fishing the ecstatic trance

The search for genuine American weirdness. To look for manifest destiny under all the rocks, roadside billboards and backwoods of the cultural bi-ways. The new series of Will Ferrell ads for Old Milwaukee is a case in point of combing … Continue reading

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touching a flaming comet

The disordering of the senses. A somewhat romantic and irrational project it was, to glorify the romantic’s seemingly narcissistic obsession with the process of creativity, an earnest concern to find the secret of creativity, like a holy grail, or a … Continue reading

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what if there was no back then

Not impressed. Deeply dissatisfied. But not surprised at this confrontation with the passive-aggressive; the yearning to be like him, then the abject tragedy arising when the initiative is undertaken. Harold Bloom was just the man to review  Robert Crumb’s The … Continue reading

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relating to the THIRD

Relating to the other. It sounds like a great idea. We are depersonalized and the concept of the face to face as opposed to human relationships seen through attempts to conceptualize the totality of being has a certain intuitive appeal … Continue reading

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mixed blessings

The emancipation of selfishness. The fecund faculties of myth making. Harold Bloom created a furor with his article on Mormonism, but for the most part it was  misinterpreted, or rather interpreted in a literal sense. Bloom understood the fantastical and … Continue reading

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see a little light

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i’ve always had an affinity for bob mould. not only have i deeply admired the music he produced in the astonishing band ‘husker du’ (and, later, the band ‘sugar’), but, we’re both smart (and smart … Continue reading

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