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...first-rate intelligence is to keep two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time. But it's not an easy task to keep two disturbing conflicts in one's head all the time. Indeed, as W.H. Auden wrote in "Musée des Beaux Arts," his beautiful poem about how life goes on in the midst of tragedy, "everything turns away quite leisurely from the disaster." But it's our job as journalists to do the opposite: to remind you not to turn away. To me, one of our tasks is to take you to another world, in this...
...Finally, Eros published a piece that was erotic and artful: an eight-page "photographic tone poem" by Ralph Hattersley Jr., called Black and White in Color: African-American guy, European-American gal, both nude. They link hands; they kiss, in silhouette; and in the last shot they press against each other. The mood is chaste and a little solemn; no pubic parts go public. Yet this was the feature that got Eros hauled into court. Several commentators wondered at the time, and I do now, whether the essay would have been deemed so objectionable if the two people had been...
...study a painting, and one of the best is to get to know the painter. The splash or splatter of color makes a lot more sense when you understand the rage or whimsy or heart behind it. The songwriter, similarly, can lay bare the song, the poet the poem, the builder the building...
...poem “Weeds and Peonies,” he describes Kenyon’s abandoned garden...
What makes a poem stand out to him, Hall says, is the beauty of its sound...