Monday, March 17, 2014

Yeats, the Gaol, and Thin Lizzy: Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I write it out in a verse— MacDonagh and MacBride   And Connolly and Pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly:   A terrible beauty is born. These words from Yeats's masterful poem "Easter, 1916" rumbled through my head last month when...
              

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Ash Wednesday at the 2013 Venice Biennale

I am not much of a photographer, and my mind thinks in words before images. But these pictures I took at the 55the Venice Biennale have stuck with me. Sculptor Pawel Althamer installed Venetians (2013), life size sculptures of local Venetians, casting their faces and hands in plaster before joining...
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"Thank God Christmas is over. I prefer Ash Wednesday." Waugh & T.S.Eliot

 "Thank God Christmas is over. I prefer Ash Wednesday." So wrote the fevered Catholic convert, Evelyn Waugh, commenting on his children’s impertinence. A glib remark from a man who lived a privileged life. The photo here is from my visit to Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin. The stark cross is...
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