Music from Blinded (aka Fartblinda) S1E01
https://www.tunefind.com/artist/david-engellau
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linguistic_hybridization_in_the_emergence_of_creoles.pdf
Poetry Recs
Two of the most distinguished formal poets of our era, Rachel Hadas and Don Paterson, have recently launched worthwhile books. Hadas’ Pandemic Almanac (Ragged Sky Press, 2022) examines our changed world with a clear eye, and Paterson’s The Arctic (Faber & Faber, 2022) is also steeped in painful current events.
Standout books of poetry worth giving to someone you love include Boris Dralyuk’s elegiac My Hollywood (Paul Dry Books, 2022), James Pollock’s Durable Goods (Vehicule Press, 2022), and Alexis Sears’s Out of Order (Autumn House Press, 2022). If you are interested in Great Books, reading Dante along with Andrew Frisardi’s book on Dante, Love’s Scribe (Angelico Press, 2020), is a great place to start—and perhaps also check out the free Great Books programs of catherineproject.org
Don’t miss @alexissearspoet’s “Out of Order,” David Mason’s “Pacific Light” from @RedHenPress, @DanaGioiaPoet’s “Meet Me at the Lighthouse,” forthcoming from @GraywolfPress, and Mark Jarman’s “Zeno’s Eternity,” forthcoming from @PaulDryBooks.
Boris Dralyuk on Twitter
Form Follows Content
Essentialism versus dereification
I’ve been wondering lately if. I am not one of those #woke racists who thinks that everything in society, except what I think and do, is #racist.
According to the Preface to the echt Confucian Canon of Poetry,
“The tone of a well-governed state is peaceful and happy; its government is harmonious. The tone of a chaotic age is resentful and angry; its government is perverse.”
Form follows content ; the end of rhyme marks the end of life
Only the Moon Can Bounce My Worry Back to You
Notes prepared around the Mooncake Festival, 10 Sept, 2022
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Song dynasty poet Su Shi, aka Dongpu, whose second, honorary name has been borrowed for a succulent dish of glazed pork rind, wrote of the Mooncake or Mid-Autumn Festival (Zhōngqiū Jié, 中秋节).
“May we live long and share the beauty of the moon / together, even if we are hundreds of miles apart.”
This is something Nasrin and I experienced in 1989 during my first visit to Curaçao, the story of which I cast into a poem for her.
https://alteritas.net/pastis/puss-and-boots/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongpo_pork
Barbara Tropp, Mastering the Art.
https://thewoksoflife.com/braised-pork-belly-dong-po-rou/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cooking_techniques
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Mid-Autumn Festival (Mooncake Festival, Zhong Qiu Jie) 2022: Traditions, Stories, Food…
水调歌头 (Water Music Song) by Su Shi / Su Tung-P’o
2 of the Most Famous Chinese Mid-Autumn Poems
蘇軾 水調歌頭 Translation: Water Song, by Su Shi (明月幾時有)
Mid-Autumn Moon – Mid-Autumn Moon Poem by Su Shi
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An Introduction to Chinese Poetry: from the Canon of Poetry to the Lyrics of the Song Dynasty (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center Press, 2017)
Mastering the Glyphs
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
by Camilla Townsend. Oxford University Press, 320 pp., $29.95; $21.95 (paper)
The Aztecs: Lost Civilizations by Frances F. Berdan. Reaktion, 232 pp., $25.00
Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest by Fernando Cervantes. Viking, 493 pp., $35.00
Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs: A Guide to Nahuatl Writing by Gordon Whittaker. University of California Press, 210 Pp., $34.95
J. H. Elliott, NYR, 02.12.2021