Hayes’ writing demonstrates a serious commitment to revising, extending, and advancing American poetry while recording, celebrating, and mourning black American life. “The right poetry collection for right now. This is one of the deepest accounts I have read in poetry of what it feels like to have one’s body fetishized as an object but criminalized as a force.” – Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker “A diary of survival during a period when black men are in constant danger. These poems play with different registers, but they return to lamentation, to annihilating grief for ‘all the black people I’m tired of losing,’ one narrator says.” – Parul Sehgal, The New York Times They are acrid with tear gas, and they unravel with desire. Each one is distinct: Some are sermons, some are swoons. “Hayes set himself the challenge of writing political poems in the guise of love poems.
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Self-portrait (1956-1957) by Zdzisław Beksiński Zdzisław Beksiński (copyrights inherited by Muzeum Historyczne w Sanoku), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons He did not utilize morbid, dismal, and surreal elements to describe horrific experiences instead, Zdzisław Beksiński’s photography and paintings are the results of a lengthy and physically exhausting voyage into the unconscious. 4.2 What Kind of Art Did Zdzisław Beksiński Make?Īlthough they may appear horrifying and distressing, Zdzisław Beksiński’s paintings reflect a synthesis of many influences, inspirations, and are touchstones of the artist’s correspondingly philosophical leanings.3.2 Beksiński 1 (2016) by Tomasz Grglewicz.1.1 The Life and Art of the Polish Horror Artist.1 Zdzisław Beksiński: The Nightmare Artist. Her voice delicately guides listeners through the struggles of a love triangle alongside growing tensions with unearthly powers and dangers. Ilyana Kadushin’s narration leaves nothing to be desired. 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In January 2006, Kernigh transwikied the text from Wikibooks:Elements of Style to Wikisource.” (Summary by Wikipedia and Wikisource) This version is based on the public-domain text from 1918, which was originally uploaded to Wikibooks and wikified by Wikibooks:User:Lord Emsworth in 2003. This book, printed as a private edition in 1918 for the use of his students, became a classic on the local campus, known as "the little book", and its successive editions have since sold over ten million copies. The original 1918 edition of The Elements of Style detailed eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition, “a few matters of form”, and a list of commonly "misused" words and expressions. high school and university composition classes. 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In “The First Parable of Grace: The Coin in the Fish’s Mouth,” his third chapter, Capon says that it is very sad “when the church acts as if it is in the religion business rather than in the Gospel-proclaiming business. Therefore when Jesus sets us a little child as an example, he is setting up not a winsome specimen of all that is simple and charming but rather one of life’s losers” (p. In Jesus’ time, and for most of the centuries since, childhood was almost always seen as a less than human condition that was to be beaten out of children as soon as possible. “We twentieth-century Christians-with our basically nineteenth-century view of childhood as a wonderful and desirable state-miss the point of the passage. Here are just a few of the passages in the book that I copied into my journal: In addition to the fairly detailed New Testament study, including explanation of Greek words, there are also repeated remarks relevant to contemporary times. Some readers may even be offended by the radical nature of Capon's understanding of grace. I was not disappointed.Īs the title indicates, this work deals only with those parables of Jesus which especially emphasize grace, and Capon has a remarkable understanding of the breadth and depth of God's grace. 5, 2013, and I read this book in memory and appreciation of him. |