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Ariana Reines Lit Poetry

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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

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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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Childhood: the value of secrecy

January 20, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

(Or “Everybody is entitled to dream, even those who came before MLK”) Eugene Field was an American writer best known for his children’s poetry, reports Wikipedia. I, on the other hand, report that translating a poem of his can be quite a challenge. Mr. Field—no doubt—had his own understanding of what childhood meant. And in this particular case, I am sure he sensed that children value secrecy—perhaps just as much as we do. These are the last three verses of […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, children, dreams, literature, Martin Luther King, poetry, secrecy

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Walt Whitman Literature poetry

Finally, I Get It

January 7, 2014 by William Eaton

I confess that I never understood what Walt Whitman meant by “Leaves of Grass.” But, I finally get it. Or at least, I think I do.  If my interpretation of the accompanying image is somewhat accurate, then “leaves” are simply “pages,” as in pages of poetry. This might seem totally obvious for many learn’d people, but it just became apparent to me. Perhaps I should have been forced to read more Whitman in high school. But reading it now, on […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: books, literature, poetry, reading, Walt Whitman, writing

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Echoes and Resurrections

January 2, 2014 by William Eaton

Reading Devil Bird from Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas. Dumas was part of the Black Arts Movement, a civil rights activist, poet, and writer. In 1968, was tragically shot and killed in a New York City subway in a case of mistaken identity. Much of his work was out of print until it was resurrected by Eugene B. Redmond, academic, poet, and activist. Thanks to Redmond, we can experience the writings of a man that Toni […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: poetry

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Science B

November 19, 2013 by William Eaton

Click for PDF. Science B By William Eaton William Eaton is the Executive Editor of Zeteo; his explorations appear almost weekly at Montaigbakhtinian.com. Let us begin gently, with, before theory, anecdote. After playing his violin for a range of non-human creatures, Michel-Paul-Guy de Chabanon, an eighteenth-century musician and philosopher, concluded that spiders are pleased by slow, harmonious melodies and will slide down from their webs in order to listen. Small fish, he believed, will surface with the same intent.[1] Like […]

Categories: Essay, Fall 2013 Issue • Tags: bees, love, Pascal, poetry, science

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Reading: 10-16 November 2013

November 15, 2013 by Ana Maria Caballero

By Ana Maria Caballero, Zeteo Contributor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 10 November 2013 The Poetry Foundation broadcasts a great public service announcement via its “Poem of the Day”. When you sign up, they send you a daily poem, just like it sounds. The selection is melt-in-your-mouth good. Back in August, I received this gem written by Todd Boss –  The World Is in Pencil —not pen. It’s got that same silken dust […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: haiku, J.D. Salinger, poetry

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Poetry as Conversation

November 8, 2013 by William Eaton

Poetry as Conversation By William Eaton   Discussion, orchestrated by William Eaton, of Haikus du temps présent by Mayuzumi Madoka, translated into French by Corinne Atlan (Philippe Picquier, 2012).[1]   In a museum gift shop I came across a book of translations, Haiku Love, credited to Alan Cummings of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Included in this volume was the following contemporary haiku which I quite liked: choosing a swimsuit when did I […]

Categories: Review • Tags: Bakhtin, bees, dialogue, French, haiku, Japan, Lacan, poetry

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The dark side of childhood: 3-9 Nov 2013 (ZiR)

November 6, 2013 by Alexia Raynal

A week of reading about childhood: 3-9 November 2013 By Alexia Raynal, Zeteo Managing Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 3 November 2013 I think the Metropolitan Museum of Art missed an opportunity to challenge modern constructions of childhood by naming its solo exhibition on Balthus Cats and Girls: Paintings and Provocations. Cats were, indeed, a big part of the painter’s persona. But I would never say that Balthus’s works are deep and […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: art, Balthus, childhood, Metropolitan Museum of Art, parenting, poetry, reading, sexuality

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