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Literature Poetry

Neruda’s great poem

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Classics Literature Poetry Psychoanalysis

The Drunken Boat

Patti Smith (Boat to Fire Island), Robert Mapplethorpe, circa 1971-74   LE BATEAU IVRE Comme je descendais des Fleuves impassibles, Je ne me sentis plus guidé par les haleurs : Des Peaux-Rouges criards les avaient pris pour cibles, Les ayant cloués nus aux poteaux de couleurs. J’étais insoucieux de tous les équipages, Porteur de blés […]

The Drunken Boat
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Book Reviews Literature

Also available as a DVD

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Art Exhibition Reviews Literature Poetry

Back to Birkenhead

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Literature Poetry

“On the Planet’s Edge”: Abram Katsnelson Sees Kyiv in Los Angeles

Most of the émigré Angeleno poets whose work I’ve shared here over the years wrote in Russian, though some of them had roots in Ukraine and even identified as Ukrainian. Today I bring you a poem originally written in Ukrainian by Abram Katsnelson (1914-2003), who, like Peter Vegin (1939-2007), came to California in the 1990s, […]

“On the Planet’s Edge”: Abram Katsnelson Sees Kyiv in Los Angeles
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Literature Penwith Poetry West Cornwall (and local history)

Davy Notebooks Projects Official Launch: Saturday 19th October

The Davy Notebooks Project is glad to announce that we have fully transcribed all 120 of Humphry Davy’s notebooks and sets of lecture notes, the vast majority of which are held at the Royal Institution in London. In total, including our pilot project that took place in 2019, our volunteers transcribed 13,121 pages. We are so very grateful […]

Davy Notebooks Projects Official Launch: Saturday 19th October
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Literature Penwith West Cornwall (and local history)

3,500 volunteers spent 4 years decoding scientist’s 200-year-old notes

British scientist Sir Humphry Davy, known for his scientific breakthroughs, hid a trove of poetry within his notebooks. See a glimpse into the mind that revolutionized electrochemistry.

3,500 volunteers spent 4 years decoding scientist’s 200-year-old notes
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Book Reviews Classics Literature

Steamships in the Postmodern

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Literature Poetry

Taisia Bazhenova (1900-1978) arriving in Calafornia

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Book Reviews Literature Psychoanalysis

A delightful introduction to Elizabeth Bowen