I Want Only to Be a Worn-Down Stone
I want only to be a worn-down stone
on the ruins of time,
a dolmen
raised above this forsaken graveyard’s
terrain.
( Alain Mabanckou )
Source: The Paris Review Issue no. 229 (Summer 2019)
Happy 185th wedding anniversary to Edgar Allan Poe and Virginia Clemm.
Source: Lit Hub, September 22, 2020
By Dan Sheehan
On this day in 1835, history’s most macabre literary lovebirds ghouled their way to Baltimore City Hall to file for a marriage...
Eros at Play — Why the ancient erotic poems of Sappho and Wallada bint...
Source: Aeon
A woman rests in a field surrounded by apple trees. Savouring the sounds and smells of the shaded grove, she muses on the ‘sacred recess’ of her idyllic surroundings,...
Elizabeth Frazer reads “The Graveyard by The Sea”, by Paul Valery
https://youtu.be/ckY1txe2xdU
Source: Brittanica.com
The Graveyard by the Sea, poem by Paul Valéry, written in French as “Le Cimetière marin” and published in 1922 in the collection Charmes; ou poèmes. The poem, set in...
Bats: Out of Hell?
It took an Irish Gothic novelist to tie up centuries of demonic mythology surrounding this leathery, nocturnal mammal.
Source: History Today Volume 70 Issue 10 October 2020
By Alexander Lee
What would vampires...
William Blake, Radical Abolitionist
Blake’s works offer an alternative to the failures of the Enlightenment, which couldn’t muster a consistent argument for abolition.
Source: JStor
William Blake, 1807
via Wikimedia Commons
By: Ed Simon
June 5, 2019
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Mourning Problems — Xi Chuan
Mourning Problems
by Xi Chuan
Source: The Paris Review
an ant dies, and no one mourns
a bird dies, and no one mourns if it isn’t a crested ibis
a monkey dies, and monkeys...
Greek Mythology 3500 BC to AD 2014 | University of Birminghan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCaDjvcaWpo&t=2804s