Tag: the body

• Thinking About the Floating Dead

  

  The painting above is a depiction of Shakespeare’s Ophelia from Hamlet. The haunting scene describes how Ophelia, driven out of her mind when her father is murdered by her lover Hamlet, falls into a stream and drowns: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy…

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  16 Jan 2019

  Art, Film, Gender, Read, Story

  Adrienne Rich, art, baptism, blooms, bodies, corporeal, drown, drowning, faith, floating, floral, flowers, foetal, Ghazal, hamlet, image, john everett millais, kumbh mela, letting go, longreads, membrane, mermaid like, metaphor, millais, mindscape, mrs dalloway, ophelia, painting, shakespeare, symbol, tate, the american ghazal, the body, the body remembers, thoughts, virginia woolf, visceral

• This is the house that Jack built

  

  Twitter informed me that today is World Poetry Day. Arundhati Roy says, “There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” Thus, I am going to leave this here in case it matters.   The House BY WARSAN SHIRE i Mother says there are locked rooms inside…

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  21 Mar 2017

  Art, Poem A Day, Poetry, Story

  echo, female, Poem, Poetry, the body, voice, words

• The Body by Boston Gordon

  

  The Body by Boston Gordon – Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics. The Body By Boston Gordon March 16, 2015 There is of course the cutting of the body. Lean away from that for a minute. Stand in the middle of a shack on fabric row and browse the cardboard bricks wrapped in lace…

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  14 Apr 2015

  Art, Awareness, Poem A Day, Poetry, Story

  arms, boston gordon, cut, guernica, incision, life, live, living, long, love, lust, the body, untold, wrists, you are told