Tag Archives: Russia

1850: The Ninth Wave

Posted on July 13, 2017 by corvusfugit

Ivan Aivazovsky: The Ninth Wave (1850) The title is a reference to a traditional belief among sailors that waves grow larger and larger in a sequence up to the ninth wave—the largest—and then the sequence begins again.

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1956: I’m Putting My Queer Shoulder to the Wheel

Posted on July 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

America America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956. I can’t stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb … Continue reading →

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2015: Moon and Sea

Posted on July 1, 2017 by corvusfugit

George Dmitriev: Moon and Sea (c. 2015)

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1895 & 1901: Two Angels

Posted on June 13, 2017 by corvusfugit

Carlos Schwabe: Angel of Hope (1895) Mikhail Vasilevich Nesterov: The Angel of Sorrow (1900-1901)

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1933: Osip Mandlestam Writes his Last Poem

Posted on May 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

And I was alive in the blizzard of the blossoming pear And I was alive in the blizzard of the blossoming pear, Myself I stood in the storm of the bird-cherry tree. It was all leaflife and starshower, unerring, self-shattering … Continue reading →

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