Poetry
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What follows is a book review through the lens of a poem. Recently, well, a couple months back now, I received and devoured Scarlet Imprint’s summer publication, The Brazen Vessel†. It is a collection of essays that gathers 10 years of work from both Alkistis Dimech and Peter Grey, ranging from unpublished essays, to presentations.…
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I have been eternally preoccupied with landscape and one’s relationship with the lay of the land ever since I first encountered Oedipa Maas in her tower on Kinneret-Upon-the-Pines. From this preoccupation grew a tree of ideas of self in place, and as a consequence, of awareness and seeing in relation to space (how I see…
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These past weeks I have been slowly toiling away at creating another project, The Poetic Arcanum. It is a collection of 22 small and pithy poems pertaining to each of the Major Arcana of the Tarot de Marseille. Each of the poems aim at specifically answering the question, Who are you, with each of the…
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I have been thinking lately about the myth of progress. Not that I am against science and technology, I am only a partial Luddite. But I do question the effectiveness of academia and “progress” when we layer upon it titles, and awards, and confer honors that bloat the ego and cloud partiality. When ideas, concepts…
Natalia Lee 