The City in Which I Love You and Other Works by Li-Young Lee
by Meri Utkovska
Wednesday, November 21, 2024
Li-Young Lee (1957–Present) is a poet, memoirist, translator, and the author of the poetry collections The City in Which I Love You (BOA, 1990), Rose (BOA, 1993), Book of My Nights (BOA, 2001), Behind My Eyes (Norton, 2008), The Undressing (Norton, 2018), and The Invention of the Darling (Norton, 2024).
Monday, November 18, 2024
Issue No. 9 of the series includes works by Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke, New Zealand director and filmmaker Jane Campion, English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist and filmmaker Michael Nyman, and Mexican artist and painter Frida Kahlo.
LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
In Letters to a Young Poet, one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets, Rainer Maria Rilke speaks about humanity, loneliness, sex, art, and the multitude of ways in which we can love the world and ourselves as a part of it.
Past Lives
Celine Song's Debut Story of Choice, Fate and Lost Love
Friday, October 11, 2024
Celine Song's Oscar-nominated debut feature is a painfully simple and direct story, and yet it overpowers with complexity of emotion and a profound sense of romance and longing.
REKINDLE
October Yoga With Adriene
Sunday, September 1, 2024
This month’s community theme on Yoga With Adriene is REKINDLE, and I sincerely recommend that you try it out. It starts out with an 8 minute morning practice titled Yoga To Get The Juices Flowing, and goes on to practices such as Flow, New Moon Yoga, Love Yoga Flow, Yoga for Vulnerability, Yoga for Overthinking, etc.
WILD GOD
by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Monday, September 8, 2024
Nick Cave: “I hope the album has the effect on listeners that it’s had on me. It bursts out of the speaker, and I get swept up with it. It’s a complicated record, but it’s also deeply and joyously infectious. There is never a masterplan when we make a record. The records rather reflect back the emotional state of the writers and musicians who played them. Listening to this, I don’t know, it seems we’re happy.”
featuring poems, excerpts, and photographs from my books:
A RAY OF SIGH: The Eternal Circle Where You and I Reside, and FRACTURED PERCEPTIONS
FRACTURED PERCEPTIONS
A CHAIN EXPLOSION
It’s fleeting
this being something matter-made
in the cold gut of eternal darkness.
See, the clouds no longer carry a burden,
grey, troublesome, solemn -
they carry nothing.
When I look at you
and your face fails to hide
your immaculate humanity,
somewhere, I’m sure, it dawns.
Concentric circles appear at the point of
transference -
water and skin.
A RAY OF SIGH: The Eternal Circle Where You and I Reside
I LOVED A DREAMER ON THE HAZIEST OF MORNINGS
I loved a dreamer this morning,
His dark hair, and the darkness of his brows,
His dark eyes, and the darkness of his visage,
Though pale, as pale as the palest spring,
I loved that dreamer on this, the haziest of mornings!
I loved a dreamer this morning,
His loneliness, and his longings,
His tape player recordings,
Though short they were, as short as the shortest spring,
I loved that dreamer on this, the haziest of mornings!
I loved a dreamer this morning,
His velvet pants, and the velvet on his jacket,
The pastel on his hands tucked in his pockets,
Though crestfallen, and melancholy,
I loved that dreamer on this, the haziest of mornings!