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greetings on his day
The anti-politician in many ways.Anathema to Israel’s liberal secular elite, who regarded him as totally lacking in the “aesthetics” of the “new jew”. Not exactly Abba Eban. To some a terrorist, to others a true patriot. Not smooth,devoid of drama,majesty … Continue reading
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land day: blasting into now time
Looking at the Middle-East and the world in general, it does not seem that retaining religious character puts people off in a secular age. Rather it seems to have found its own vernacular within the everyday, the “ready-mades” of life … Continue reading
where shall i seek you
The plausibility of Elie Wiesel asserting the importance of the holocaust as comparable and of equal significance to the events of Mount Sinai does seem like poetic lyricism gone amok and the elevation of the tragic to fetishised narrative of … Continue reading
100 red carpets for the sun
Seeing Irving Layton in action was poetry as performance art. The phycicality, the gesticulation, the booming delivery, the sublimation, the modulation. A spectacle vascillating between erotic vulgarity, a sort of testosterone based infantilism, yet enigmatically mixed with the redemptive promise … Continue reading
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Tagged a.m. klein, Albert Camus, Beckett, canadian poetry, George Woodcock, Irving Layton, Irving Layton 100th anniversary, jack mcclelland, Jean Genet, Kafka, Leonard Cohen, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Mordechai Richler, Samuel Beckett, Sartre, T.S. Eliot
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where shall i find thee?
It seems like nonsense anointing this writer as the torchbearer for Jewish writing. To be a Jewish writer you have to actually have a connection with Judaism. Otherwise what is left is a “culturally” jewish writer or a Jewish writer … Continue reading
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Tagged a.m. klein, alfred flechtheim, Anne Frank, boris lurie, Chaim Potok, Hieronymous Bosch, Howard Jacobson, Irving Layton, Michael Lewis, Nathan Englander, Otto Dix, Otto Frank, wilfred bion
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poetry and pond games
The cultural ghetto to escape from or to remain in? Smaller ghettos within the vast metropolis. Finding the vastness of the universal within the small and comparatively isolated. Northrop Frye was known for his theory of the Canadian what he … Continue reading
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