Yes, I'm certainly interested Jill. Please lead me to it ...
Andrew
On 1 September 2015 at 01:08, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> For sure, yes Doug. Someone recently wrote an essay about my work and they
> also drew extensively on Benjamin's ideas around The Angel of History.
> (It's available online, if anyone is interested.)
>
> Cheers,
> Jill
>
>
> On 01/09/2015, at 12:16 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>
> > Well, I’m certainly interested in ekphrasis, & try it sometimes…
> >
> > & don’t think I’m alone in alluding to that angel, through Benjamin…
> >
> > Doug
> > On Aug 30, 2015, at 9:40 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> oh yes, quite so, Doug…
> >>
> >> Coincidentally I hear from my poetry instructor at St Mark’s Episcopal
> that she is to run a course or two based on
> >> pictures and icons. I dare say this is much done these days but will
> share her memo below…
> >>
> >> Max in Seattle
> >>
> >> Hello! [emails Carrie…][Auden’s Musee des Beaux Arts poem is specified
> with the Breughel Fall of Icarus]
> >>
> >> This fall Creative Writing is excited to offer two classes in
> partnership with Faith Formation:
> >> Enunciating the Annunciation: Faith and Doubt in Mary Szybist's Poetry
> >> Practicing Ekphrasis: Investigating Image Through Word.
> >>
> >> Enunciating the Annunciation is a book study of Mary Szybist's
> Incarnadine, which explores the annunciation both to Mary the mother of
> Christ, and the many annunciations found in small moments everyday.
> Starting September 13, we'll spend three weeks reading, discussing, and
> responding to Szybist's poems, and then on Tuesday, September 29th we'll
> take a field trip to the SAL Poetry Series at McCaw Hall and see her read
> with Robert Wrigley.
> >>
> >> Practicing Ekphrasis focuses on both the Ekphrastic process
> (responding verbally to a visual image, like W.H. Auden does here), and
> works from Saint Mark’s beautiful collection of icons. Starting October
> 4th, each class will open with short contextual lectures on an icon's
> historic and artistic significance, then participants will be asked to
> respond creatively both as writers, and as people on journeys of faith.
> This is an open genre class; participants are encouraged to use the form
> that fits their thoughts best.
> >>
> >> Classes will meet on Sundays starting September 13th from 1PM-2:30PM.
> For more information or to register, send me an email or stop by the
> Facebook page.
> >>
> >> I look forward to hearing from you soon!
> >>
> >> Carrie Kahler
> >>
> >>
> >> On Aug 30, 2015, at 8:25, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> This is fascinating, Max, but, really, does not change the meaning of
> Benjamin’s point, whether or not he was wrong about the actual painting. We
> make of art what we see there, & Benjamin saw his ‘angel of history,’ upon
> which he, & many other since, have built a massive metaphysical imagery.
> >>>
> >>> And looking at it, I confess I don’t really see any image of Hitler I
> would recognize…
> >>>
> >>> Doug
> >>> On Aug 28, 2015, at 9:54 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> A quick ask of Google brings up this, of great interest…
> >>>>
> >>>>
> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/sep/25/walter-benjamins-angel-hitler/
> >>>>
> >>>> Max
> >>>>
> >>>> On Aug 28, 2015, at 19:05, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I have scads of Benjamin quotes, but no Benjamin book. Any
> recommendations?
> >>>>> I'd like to buy one, or get a couple out of the library.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> When I was doing my PhD my super wouldn't let me use Walter B as he
> was
> >>>>> 'too old'!! Annoying super ...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Andrew
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 29 August 2015 at 09:59, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Ah, the Benjaminian angel!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> And also, a Benjaminian caesura, perhaps …
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> J
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 29/08/2015, at 2:49 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Thanks Jill, Patrick, & Bill.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 'that angel’ can be found in Benjamin, actually…
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Doug
> >>>>>>> On Aug 28, 2015, at 2:46 AM, Bill Wootton <
> [log in to unmask]>
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> angel = plane? Not that we're in the equation business.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Like 'layer after layer of lives/sifted through time, Doug.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> cunning/conning loses me but hey.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Bill
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On 28/08/2015, at 3:01 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> City of Clouds
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> as any city might be
> >>>>>>>>> seen through that angel’s eyes
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> layer after layer of lives
> >>>>>>>>> sifted through time
> >>>>>>>>> s low cunning
> >>>>>>>>> a con ning tower
> >>>>>>>>> of epic song
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> always in the wrong key
> >>>>>>>>> to the cities
> >>>>>>>>> buried below
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Douglas Barbour
> >>>>>>>>> [log in to unmask]
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> >>>>>> Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
> >>>>>>>>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Done in by creation itself.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> >>>>>>>>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> >>>>>>>>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Robert Kroetsch.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Douglas Barbour
> >>>>>>> [log in to unmask]
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuation
> >>>>>> 2 (UofAPress).
> >>>>>>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Done in by creation itself.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> >>>>>>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> >>>>>>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Robert Kroetsch.
> >>>>>>
> >>>
> >>> Douglas Barbour
> >>> [log in to unmask]
> >>>
> >>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
> >>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> >>>
> >>> Done in by creation itself.
> >>>
> >>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> >>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> >>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
> >>>
> >>> Robert Kroetsch.
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation
> 2 (UofAPress).
> > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> >
> > Done in by creation itself.
> >
> > I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> > The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> > We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
> >
> > Robert Kroetsch.
>
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