Category Archives: Literature

Poetry, Pictures ‘n Politics

Headline about sums up my life. Forty (or so) years ago poet Philip Whalen wrote: Our main difficulty: fear and distrust of freedom In America we’ve been fighting each other 100 years We pretend we’re unimaginably rich But we’re poor and afraid of the poor who must become The Army to defend us against right […]

Keep looking. If you can’t photograph; write. If you can’t write; draw. If you can’t draw; pickup a musical instrument.

“The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.” — Brooks Atkinson – 1951, Once Around the Sun some times the impulse simply will not manifest as on this foggy day — beauty seen yet no […]

Roberto Bolaño’s Infrarealist Manifesto

More from Roberto Bolaño’s Infrarealist Manifesto, “Risk is always elsewhere. The true poet is always leaving himself behind. Never too long in the same place, like guerrilla fighters, flying saucers, and the white eyes of lifers. LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND, AGAIN. GO OUT ON THE ROADS.” “I dreamt that a man looked back, over the […]

words bouncing off visions

“I trust pictures, but no pictures in my world – because I know what goes on.” — Naomi Campbell So, sitting in the kitchen, reading The Nation, or rather articles within, which refer to the life, times and work of Roberto Bolaño, who said, “Then what is writing of quality? Well, what it’s always been: […]