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Throwback Thursdays at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on June 19th, 2011. Hopkins is, of course, Roman Catholic, the most Roman Catholic of all English poets. His art and vision is rooted in his theology, his language in the singularity of his position as outsider.… Read more
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Album Interplay Artist Bill Evans Year 1963 Personnel Bill Evans (piano), Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Jim Hall (guitar), Percy Heath (bass), Philly Joe Jones (drums) Era / Style Post-Bop / Small Group Jazz / Collaborative Session Favorite Tracks When You Wish Upon a Star First Listen Reaction Strongly enjoyed the album right away and appreciated the… Read more
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“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it; the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.” – Andrew Wyeth Read more
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Throwback Thursdays at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on July 4th, 2011. There are a number of very good poems about growing old. Yeats, of course, wrote a goodly number, but all poets if they live long enough find themselves moved to write about the… Read more
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I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about the concept of being an “Amateur” vs. a Professional of something. No doubt this has been prompted by the amount of time I spend with 19th Century Literature. Specifically with 19th Century Adventure and Detective Fiction where characters that are amateur scientists, archeologists, naturalists, and… Read more
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“Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.” ~ Nina Simone Read more
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Throwback Thursdays at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on July 11th, 2011. There are poets I love because they represent elusive/ideal/transcendent/otherworldly beauty: Yeats, Keats, Shelley, Milton, Blake, Byron. There are other poets I love because they represent familiar/democratic (small “d”)/transubstatiated/thisworldly beauty: Kooser, Heaney, Whitman, Frost, and… Read more
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