Author: cultured
2015/02/15 #SundaySentence
Tengo hambre de tu boca, de tu voz, de tu pelo / y por las calles voy sin nutrirme, callado, / no me sostiene el pan, el alba me desquicia, / busco el sonido líquido de tus pies en el día. from Love Sonnet XI by Pablo Neruda English translation by Stephen Tapscott: I crave your mouth, your voice, your…
2015/01/18 #SundaySentence
No librarian likes to have his or her authority as librarian undermined. It’s not a power issue, rather a simple fact that policy has been disturbed and you don’t mess with library policy and get away with it. From Dispatches from a Public Librarian by Scott Douglas Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out…
2015/07/11 #SundaySentence
Nunca quise mariposas clavadas en un cartón; busco una ecología poética, atisbarme y a veces reconocerme, desde mundos diferentes, desde cosas que solo los poemas no habían olvidado y me guardaban como viejas fotografías fieles . from Save Twilight by Julio Cortàzar I never wanted butterflies pinned to a board. I’m looking for a poetic ecology, to observe…
2015/01/11 #SundaySentence
It never ended because there was no end to reach. It was a contest in hyperbole and carried on for no other reason. from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
2014/12/7 #SundaySentence
hat film is a debate between me and Caleb, who always wanted to become an artist but over-committed to life; he’s a stay-at-home dad to three young girls. I always wanted to become a human being, but I overcommitted to art. Taken from the poem “Letter to James Franco” by David Shields. Sunday Sentence: The…
2014/11/23 #SundaySentence
…kid,” he said, “I’ve slept longer than you’ve lived. Taken from the poem “too soon” in the compilation what matters most is how well you walk through the fire by Charles Bukowski. Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
2014/11/9 #SundaySentence
While the most adroit of writers in this genre can achieve effects of breathtaking subtlety, I’d still maintain in every successful short story you can find, among delicate shards of glass, that solid brick, threatening, wonderful, ready to propel itself, if necessary, into one’s imagination, doing damage, external and internal, and unlike most novels, not…
2014/11/2 #SundaySentence
Indeed, the most thrilling moments in writing are when the author is veritably un-safe and takes a leap – in plot, character, logic, language or whatever – and reveals something (perhaps, even, our own selves). Published in The Stinging Fly Issue 29 Volume 2 (Editorial by Thomas Morris) Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week,…
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. George Bernard Shaw photo circa 1906 (George Bernard Shaw immitating Rodan’s The Thinker