— From “Brazilian Poetry Today”, by Paulo Henriques Britto, in the Los Angeles Review of Books
Monday, November 25, 2013
“It really is a nation”
“There comes a time in the history of a nation
when its artists and intellectuals no longer feel a need to assert at
all times that it really is a nation, with a culture of its own.”
— From “Brazilian Poetry Today”, by Paulo Henriques Britto, in the Los Angeles Review of Books
— From “Brazilian Poetry Today”, by Paulo Henriques Britto, in the Los Angeles Review of Books
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Monday, November 18, 2013
When the horizon is a tightrope
Still from Touch (video, 2002), by Janine Antoni
Balance is a process, not a state. It means holding steady a centre of gravity: a negotiation among mass and momentum and energy. On this depends stability and mobility. The tightrope walker keeps moving, or else she falls, and her successful journey is an ongoing compromise between her own mass, tension in the wire, and universal gravity.
— From “A fine balance”, in the November 2013 Caribbean Review of Books
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