The above phrase, “Hold on tightly; let go lightly” was spoken by the spiritual teacher, writer and thinker Ram Dass. But this quotation is one I have not heard first hand: it was quoted to me from a podcast. Somehow, I would like to keep it this way: language can gain resonance through the second-handContinue reading “Hold on tightly; let go lightly: ‘Song, after an Abortion’ by Diane DiPrima”
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Partly of the Sky
In a photograph from 1917, the avant-garde poet Mina Loy appears both enigmatic and defiant. Taken by Man Ray, the centrepiece of the portrait is Loy’s earring: a dark-room thermometer. In a typically Dadaist manner, the object detracts from the subject. The portrait mirrors the way twentieth-century critics, from Ezra Pound to Roger L. Conover,Continue reading “Partly of the Sky”
Roots & Wings 