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“A phrase in connection first with she”

August 24, 2014 by William Eaton

  I have long wanted to write in praise of the Bob Dylan song “Love is Just a Four-Letter Word,” a song that Dylan has apparently never recorded, but that Joan Baez has been performing since 1965. In a documentary about Dylan, Baez is shown saying that she was with Dylan when he first heard her recording of the song on the radio. She says that he said, “Hey, that’s a great song!”, apparently having forgotten that he had written […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Bob Dylan, dialogue, isolation, love, Martin Scorsese, narrative, philosophy of language, poetry, popular music, relationships, songs

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How Humans Relate: Can a Taco and Beer Beat a Bucket of Ice?

August 23, 2014 by William Eaton

Social media has always confounded me for the immeasurable ways that it has so suddenly yet drastically altered our social interactions. Everything that we do and say was built on the foundation of our physical interactions and relationships with other people. In order to survive, we had to be in the same space as other people, and thus we have learned every single physical movement, gesture, facial expression, and not to mention language and voice intonation, in the reflection of ourselves through […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: Facebook, humans, social media

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A tableland blistered by ice and wind – Shadow of the Silk Road, 2 of 3

August 21, 2014 by William Eaton

Part 1 is introduces the Silk Road, the world’s best known itinerary Part 3 (28 Aug) discusses Thubron’s journey through Afghanistan and Iran, ending in Turkey Colin Thubron’s travelogue, Shadow of the Silk Road, is pure joy. His descriptions are vivid. They are alive. His natural and spontaneous metaphors and similes have immediate impact. His prose runs effortlessly. Thubron leaves Xian bound for Kashgar via the Road’s southern route. He rides through fifteen hundred miles of desolation rimming the Taklamakan dessert and Tibetan […]

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The Awesomest Poem Title

August 19, 2014 by Ana Maria Caballero

Mark Leidner is an MFA student at the prestigious Iowa Writer’s Workshop, where good writers go get ready to be nearly famous. Mark Leidner is also a filmmaker and a very accessible poet. His work is so easy to read that it seems almost un-crafted. But this sort of trickery is the sign of a gifted writer. Below are a few of his poems, published by La Petite Zinc literary journal. To the right is a random photo taken from […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: literature, poetry, writers, writing

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Rich in symbolism, short on power

August 18, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

The problem of representation in children and childhood narratives One of the greater challenges of writing about children has to do with representation. Children are rarely given a space to speak freely. Because their voices are not accessible to adults, people who speak about children run the risk of seeming to speak for them. Sadly, this is also the very goal of others: to manipulate what children—inadvertently or not—communicate. In most cultures, childhood is a symbol of innocence. This vulnerability is used to justify political action. I […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: apartheid, childhood, children, ideology, innocence, political propaganda, politics

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We’re not here for you to upbraid

August 17, 2014 by William Eaton

A very loose translation of a once better known Boris Vian lyric [print_link] [email_link]   One nice morning in July, the alarm At dawn it breaks the calm “My doll,” I said, “better shake a leg” Today’s the today, not to be missed Get to the boulevard without delay To see parading the Zanzibar King But suddenly the police — we’re turned away And I replied We’re not here for you to upbraid We’re just here to see the parade We’re […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: French, jazz, songs, translation

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Paternity Leave and Daddy Blogging: What it Means to ‘Be A Man’

August 16, 2014 by William Eaton

Last week I was away in California for an old friend’s wedding, and a trip up and down the Pacific coast that reunited me with friends I have not seen in some time; since the revolution began in Egypt or since she moved across the country when we were 10 year-old best friends. Although I am planning a wedding of my own, all the talk of marriage and new engagements can be a bit grotesque to me. I was pleasantly surprised, […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: masculinity, NPR

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Language and identity as shifting as the sands – Shadow of the silk road, 1 of 3

August 14, 2014 by William Eaton

Read part 2 (21 Aug) about the Road’s ethnic diversity ranging from Europe to Korea Part 3 (28 Aug) discusses Thubron’s journey through Afghanistan and Iran, ending in Turkey   Colin Thubron’s Shadow of the Silk Road records his 7,000 mile journey from Xi’an China to Antioch, Turkey (today Antaky). Thubron is a peerless author of travel books. The Times of London placed him 45th on their list of the 50 greatest writers since 1945. The New York Times says he is “the dean of […]

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Isolation vs. Solitude

August 13, 2014 by William Eaton

With Drew Whitcup on vacation, Zeteo Associate Gayle Rodda Kurtz is reading Montaigne— When did the celebrated notion of our individualism slip into a form of isolation? We are familiar with the sight of those around us in public spaces hunched over their electronic devices and addicted to mindless electronic games and time-wasting media activities. Thinking that we were in our own private worlds, we now know that we are caught up in complex systems of surveillance technologies. This toxic […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz, ZiR

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