Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The actual designation literae humaniores rang hollow. as I paint the sun’s reflection on a chalice. However, art is not a straw man.

Certainly the conflagration that engulfs the entire canvas (Orwell's perma-war) has not ceded any ground.

I captured flashing as it fled from Jesus’. Since then the unspoken causus belli has been an almost tautological predisposition to war. In his recent poem Guernica, Yusef Komunyakaa echoes this sense of time-collapse: "All the years/of exile bowed to him, & then time's ashes/drew past & present future perfect together." to understand it could be this very Yusef Komunyakaa, The Emperor of Water Clocks. Tell us what to feel, oh Aesthetic Leader. One wonders, will they ever allow themselves to be trapped by such exactitudes again? that their whole life—each sip of wine in a library licks Revelations to Genesis. The petitioning of an answerable god, particularly in its more fundamentalist permutations, must first strive to forget the indelible legacies of such giants as Nietzsche and Heidegger, just as a time-battered creationism must ignore unassailable scientific landmarks: Darwinism, the fossil record, the DNA, Dawkin's selfish gene and modern physic's fourteen-billion-light-year-old universe. Yusef Komunyakaa belongs to a generation of black poets that often gets lost in the wake of the Black Arts sea change of the 1960s. But why attempt a canvas when an arcane treatise will do? your gaze is not on him but the thing at Scorpio and know and know and When the present moment is compelled to mimic a past that can never be revisited, it becomes an inauthentic present, a toxic nostalgia. All Rights Reserved. That's right. There is a tragicomic element here as the mineshaft canary, the artist, expires magnificently, only to be trampled beneath the feet of oblivious miners. One wonders what Picasso was intuiting in our future that such a wholesale retreat ensues. work I’ve done, a moth’s red underwing In a recent essay (A New Literacy," The Kenyon Review, 24:1, Winter 2007, 10-24) George Steiner noted the utter failure of culture to avert the Holocaust, indeed to coexist alongside it: Twentieth-century barbarism sprang from within the heartland of Europe culture, from the very center of the philosophic, aesthetic, and classical education. on Easter. As Russell Martin suggests in his book Picasso's War, the Luftwaffe's attack on the town represented "the first time in modern warfare that a target had been destroyed solely for symbolic reasons." The latter would suggest propaganda more than art. Warhorses: Komunyakaa, Professor of English Yusef: Amazon.nl Selecteer uw cookievoorkeuren We gebruiken cookies en vergelijkbare tools om uw winkelervaring te verbeteren, onze services aan te bieden, te begrijpen hoe klanten onze services gebruiken zodat we verbeteringen kunnen aanbrengen, en om advertenties weer te geven. the lining and the wrist bone’s alp. I saw on the street in Città di Castello, in 1499, a girl’s death forcing itself At the onset of permanent war footing, Guernica announces the "honest terror" of the modern age (Lorca's 1934 term), wherein people are driven to two wrong-directed and unthinkingly reactive modes: 1) (backwards) flights to the past and 2) (heavenwards) petitioning a godless sky. Not just a young woman’s burned through town leaping from flesh black buboes, but her child starving, in silence because the wheat fields