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April 22, 2014 by Ana Maria Caballero

This marks my second post on controversial poet Ariana Reines. I brought along her book “Mercury ” on a recent trip to New York City and took some shots of it, with the city as backdrop. Reines writes as if she were speaking, albeit in a disjointed way. To read her is to read youth and rebellion, but also wisdom gained via sharp, inquisitive observation. She has attracted the attention of the poetry community, in part because she […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: books, literature, New York City, poetry, reading, writing

The Groups We Belong To

April 21, 2014 by Walter Cummins

The Groups We Belong To By Walter Cummins Review of The Big Picture: America in Panorama, from the collection of Josh Sapan (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2013) {Click for pdf wherein, inter alia, the pictures are larger} The Big Picture: America in Panorama celebrates both the possibilities of the panoramic camera and the manner in which the United States organized itself during the decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The people pictured are arranged […]

Categories: Review • Tags: photography

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I never followed Oz because it seemed unreal

April 21, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

The difference between fairy and wonder tales I recently stumbled upon an old print of Lyman Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz (1944). I’ve never been interested enough in the book to finish it, but the introduction is an exciting thing to read. In it, Baum distinguishes between fairy tales and wonder tales, and places Oz in the latter. The classic fairy tale, he says (almost in a prophetic tone), filled many “childish” hearts with joy, Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, fairy tales

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How to get published after you’re dead?

April 20, 2014 by William Eaton

In a footnote on page 609 of Alfred Habegger’s My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson, I find: In 1903, traveling in Europe with Sue [Emily’s sister-in-law], Martha [one of Emily’s nieces] married Captain Alexander E. Bianchi, supposedly of the Imperial Horse Guard of St. Petersburg. The captain accompanied his bride to America, ran through her money, cooled his heels in a New York jail, and vanished. After this costly misadventure, Martha took a keen […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Emily Dickinson, Henry James, Kant, Marx, poetry

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Using your Podium for the Right Reasons: Jimmy Carter on Rape at Universities

April 19, 2014 by William Eaton

On my last trip down south I was gifted Jimmy Carter’s latest book, A Call To Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power. I must admit I began reading with hesitation and scrutiny, confident that this anti-choice, Southern Baptist, ex-President could not possibly be critiquing the role of religion in the oppression of and overall inequality of women. Sure enough! That and so much more. I am still only moments into the book, and certainly going in with low expectations can often […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: Jimmy Carter, New York Times, rape, women, women's rights

Creativity brought on by Adversity

April 18, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

This week on my “spring break” I am reading Oliver Sacks’ An Anthropologist on Mars. In the introduction he refers to the inevitable creative ways in which people who cope with disease or development disorders learn to not only exist in the world but thrive. Thus while one may be horrified by the ravages of developmental disorder or disease, one may sometimes see them as creative too – for if they destroy particular paths, particular ways of doing things, they may […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: film

The Hunger to Be Somewhere Else – part III of III

April 17, 2014 by William Eaton

(This is the third of three reviews of John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley: In Search of America. In Part I (April 03, 2014) – Steinbeck writes about travel and nature. In Part II (April 10) Steinbeck uses humor to look into the American character and to create a relationship with his readers.) “I have to go alone, and unknown,” said John Steinbeck of the 10,000 mile road trip through 34 states he took in 1960. “What I’ll get I need badly—a reknowledge […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: literature, travel

Satisfying Bruises

April 15, 2014 by William Eaton

I read “Mercury,” my first book by rebel poet Ariana Reines, while on a recent trip to New York City. Reines is famous for being fearless and even foul mouthed. Her poetry is haunting and unsettling, but in a beautiful, straightforward way. Leafless tree beauty, you could call it. One thing her poetry is not is romantic. So perhaps it wasn’t the ideal travel companion for a trip taken to celebrate a 5-year wedding anniversary. However, the urbanity of “Mercury” […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR

A name that tells a story

April 14, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

There’s a lesson to be learned in Ernesto Quiñonez’s Bodega Dreams (New York: A Vintage Contemporaries Original, 2000). Namely, that nicknames, other than forming an annoying part of growing up, are also a testimony of a person’s life and actions. In the first pages of the book, one of the main characters classifies real names as trivial and nicknames as achievements: To have a name other than the one your parents had given you meant you had status in school, had […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: adolescence, childhood

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