Tag Archives: Poetry

1994: You Bomb You!

Posted on September 21, 2018 by corvusfugit

Allen Ginsberg throwing out the first pitch at a San Francisco Giants game on June 1, 1994. The team had invited him to be the first in a “City of Poets” series in which writers read their work before games. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1990's, 20th Century, Allen Ginsberg, LGBTQ, Poetry, Sports, USA, War | Leave a comment

2006: WHEN I AM WITH PEOPLE I AM BOTHERED BY HEARING VERY QUEER THINGS

Posted on September 9, 2018 by corvusfugit

WHEN I AM WITH PEOPLE I AM BOTHERED BY HEARING VERY QUEER THINGS I went to the pillar-box I never saw a worse-looking house in town or in hunting zones “welcome to girly hell” turn her out because her necklace … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2000's, 21st Century, Books, Katie Degentesh, Mental Health, Poetry, Psychology, USA, Women | Leave a comment

1927: Work in Progress

Posted on August 9, 2018 by corvusfugit

On May 20, 1927, James Joyce wrote to Harriet Shaw Weaver about what should happen if he were unable to complete Finnegans Wake. Another writer, Joyce said, should take it up and finish it; he had the person in mind: … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, Food and Drink, Goats, Ireland, James Joyce, James Stephens, Novels, Poetry, Writing | Leave a comment

1821: In Life the Firmest Friend

Posted on June 12, 2018 by corvusfugit

From a letter written by Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Love Peacock, August 1821: Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom…at twelve. After breakfast, we sit talking till six. From six till … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1820's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Clifton Tomson, Dogs, George Gordon Byron, Great Britain, Mammals, Painting, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poetry, Portraits, Thomas Love Peacock, Writing | Leave a comment

1970: Knots

Posted on June 1, 2018 by corvusfugit

A selection from R. D. Laing’s Knots (1970). Here is another: Mother loves me because she is good I am bad, to think she is bad therefore if I am good she is good and loves me because I am … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Books, Great Britain, Mental Health, Mothers, Poetry, Psychology, R. D. Laing, Scotland, Writing | Leave a comment

2010: We Chast Butterflys

Posted on May 25, 2018 by corvusfugit

Found in a park, 2010: GUY CLUES 1. has gray hair 2. wears glasses 3. looks like mr. schultz 4. construction man day 2 very dusty [?] suny bisx [?] mayla aolo [?] must erestmangone [?] mushengone [?] blanck nin … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Poetry, USA, Writing | Leave a comment

2006: A Little White Shadow

Posted on April 1, 2018 by corvusfugit

Pages from Mary Ruefle’s book A Little White Shadow, which was composed by whiting out text from Emily Malbone Morgan‘s 1890 book of the same name. …seven centuries of…sobbing…gathered…in the…twilight…and…had their…pages…wandered…through the…dead…borrow so little from…the past…as if they were alive

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, 2000's, 21st Century, Books, Emily Malbone Morgan, Mary Ruefle, Poetry, USA, Women, Writing | Leave a comment

600 BC: How Can Someone Not Be Hurt and Hurt Again

Posted on March 25, 2018 by corvusfugit

πῶϲ κε δή τιϲ οὐ θαμέω̣ϲ̣ἄϲαιτ̣ο, Κύπρι, δέϲπ̣ ̣ο̣ιν̣ ̣’, ὄττινα [δ]η̣ ̀ φιλ̣́ ̣[ηϲι,] [κωὐ] θέλοι μάλιϲτα πάθα̣ν̣χ̣άλ̣[αϲϲαι;] [ποῖ]ον ἔχηϲθα [νῶν] ϲά̣ λοιϲί μ’ ἀλεμά̣τω̣ ̣ϲ̣ δ̣αιϲ̣̈́ δ̣ ̣[ην [ἰμέ]ρω⟨ι⟩ λύ{ι}̣ ϲαντι γ̣όν’ ωμε-̣ [x [ ̣ ̣ ̣] … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, 6th Century BC, 7th Century BC, Art, Diane Raynor, Great Britain, Greece, LGBTQ, Love, Painting, Poetry, Sappho, Simeon Solomon, Women | Leave a comment

1997: Translation / Transformation

Posted on March 11, 2018 by corvusfugit

In a 1997 essay on translation, the writer Harry Mathews cites Marcel Benabou’s version of Keats’s “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”: Ah, singe débotté, / Hisse un jouet fort et vert! It’s not quite a translation: the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1990's, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Austria, France, Gabriel von Max, Harry Mathews, John Keats, Language, Mammals, Marcel Benabou, Monkeys, Opera, OULIPO, Painting, Poetry, Translation, USA | 1 Comment

1936: Gold Were His Limbs where He Was Bird

Posted on March 10, 2018 by corvusfugit

In 1921, the Istituto nazionale dantesco in Milan commissioned a lavish edition of the Divine Comedy to celebrate the 600th anniversary of Dante’s death; the edition was to include an original color plate for each of the 100 canti of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 14th Century, 1930's, 20th Century, Amos Nattini, Art, Books, Cryptids, Dante, Italy, Poetry, Printmaking | Leave a comment