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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.