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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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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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decoys of perception: poetry after …..
Could poetry be written after Auschwitz? Theodor Adorno’s famous assertion did not necessarily mean that no poetry could be created about the holocaust. Its a touchy grey zone; a metaphorical voyage of the damned where like Odysseus you tie yourself … Continue reading
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Tagged a.m. klein, Art Spiegelman, art spiegelman maus, boris lurie, clayton patterson, david h. katz, David katz, Donald Kuspit, elaine martin, eli mandel, emmanuel levinas, Irving Layton, Jacques Derrida, Michael Franti, Michael Greenstein, Raul Hilberg, seymour mayne, Walter Benjamin
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two state solution
There is a feedback loop at work here: Do we really want more separation from Canada, statehood, or does all this incessant chatter about it simply desensitize the issue into the realm of indifference and boredom? Or, in today’s consumerist … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonin Artaud, Benjamin West, Bob Dylan, bruce mallen, Carl Jung, clotaire rapaille, Greil Marcus, ian and sylvia, Irving Layton, John Verelst, louis joseph papineau, Mordecai Richler, napoleon bourassa, Northrop Frye, patriotes movement quebec, paul bennett le devoir, rheal seguin, victor-levy beaulieu
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