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Reading a poem/A poet reading

January 10, 2015 by sjzeteo2015

By Stuart Johnson Davidson College, down the road from me in North Carolina, just announced that its alumnus Charles Wright will be appearing on campus next month, so I pulled his 2014 collection, Caribou, off the shelf. For those who don’t keep track, Wright is the current US Poet Laureate. I have been reading the poems in Caribou with the thought that Wright’s appearance is likely to be for a reading of his work, and the poems in that book […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Charles Wright, Christianity, poetry, reading

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Memory Stor(i)es

October 9, 2012 by sjzeteo2015

Memory Stor(i)es By Stuart Johnson Stories of actual real-world controversies over the nature of memory, with actual real-world consequences, sometimes life and death. But by the end, memory remains remarkably elusive—as elusive as le temps perdu. A review of Alison Winter, Memory: Fragments of a Modern History (University of Chicago Press, 2012) Image is of “Cairn” by the ceramicist Eric Knoche. Used with the permission of the artist.   One might expect that a book entitled Memory: Fragments of a Modern […]

Categories: Review • Tags: Eric Knoche, law, memory

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Image from The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination, by Julie Anderson, Emm Barnes and Emma Shackleton (The University of Chicago Press, 2012); images used courtesy of the Wellcome Trust

Medicine and Art

May 2, 2012 by sjzeteo2015

Surface and Depth, Medicine and Art By Stuart Johnson A review of The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination, by Julie Anderson, Emma Barnes, and Emma Shackleton (The University of Chicago Press, 2012)   The title of this volume signals a useful ambiguity. Medicine is a science, or a scientific practice, but it is also an art in the sense that the application of scientific medical principles to individual cases requires judgment and imagination. In that […]

Categories: Review • Tags: art, medicine, the body

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