These pieces are from a longer series of instructions for producing variations on the play Hamlet. Each variation may be applied singly or in combination to any given performance of Hamlet. Once a variation or set of variations has been chosen the corresponding instructions should be followed strictly, regardless of whether a variation may appear impossible for legal, moral, or pragmatic reasons.
James Tadd Adcox on "DENMARK: Variations 24, 27, 32" |
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Political The Podcast
"Chapbooks, Pamphleteering, and All Things Political” the premiere episode: Howie Debs, the old Jewish Poet, and Nellie Pierce, the young cognitive science graduate, talk about Howie’s new chapbook Political, and why he wrote it; the history and merit of chapbooks, the classic meaning of the term “political” and why it all matters for living in the 21st century. Listen now. |
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"Poem of the week: Secrecy by Samuel Greenberg"
"This week’s poem, from Greenberg’s Sonnets of Apology (1915-16), may depict an actual scene, filtered through heightened imagination, or describe a painting. The latter is more likely, I think, from the opening reference to 'The apparent gale' followed by the intensely vivid description that shows how motion is captured in lines and light."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Dan Beachy-Quick on "Alcman 89"
"Studying my declensions, conjugating those verbs, the endless rote memorization of vocabulary, all felt meaningful in relation to this wild, instinctive possibility—that thinking was the body’s work, that apprehension in all its senses (grasping, fearing, knowing) was the thinking poetry could offer, a thought that is a sensation, as natural and instinctive as the hawk’s dive is to hawk or the mouse’s hiding is to the mouse, all eyes bright with purpose." |
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