I had ekphrasis once very painful too spellcheck is trying to change it to
emphasis phew -am recovering from a stupid fall off a chair whilst
pruning!!!
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Barbour
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 3:46 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: in lieu of a snap
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
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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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