A Conversation with Catherine Barnett
"My practice of keeping a notebook started in earnest after the unspeakable deaths of my two nieces in a plane crash. To try to help my sister through, I flew out West to be with her every few weeks, and while she did yoga, I’d go to a café and write whatever I didn’t want to forget from the day before. I think my notebook is a bulwark against loss."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Aaron McCollough on "Not at Duino”
"I am increasingly persuaded that American Christianity’s embrace of Donald Trump is simply the latest expression of a terrific counter-scandal, effectively another, much more gradual transvaluation of values, whereby the dominant American secular and religious visions have aligned themselves with a cult of progress, the technocratic human image for which power can only mean domination, exploitation, and mastery. The key joke of this era is the one where the man puts a gun to his head, and when his wife starts laughing says to her, 'What’s so funny? You’re next!'" |
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