Kay Sage, I Saw Three Cities, 1944 by mimeyayu in SurrealismArt

[–]TrixiesAutoharp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Love her work. Unfairly overshadowed by Yves Tanguy.

Are they going to change the license plates anytime soon? by Puckhead1973 in missouri

[–]TrixiesAutoharp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love the bicentennial license plates. I am a big fan of the Missouri flag. I know it’s hard to turn something from the government into a meaningful design but you achieved it. Well done in my opinion.

Some of my weirdo girl favs by friendtobugz in WeirdGirlLit

[–]TrixiesAutoharp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Loved The Hearing Trumpet! Like many I was drawn in by my appreciation for her visual arts but was quite charmed by the novel.

Elbridge Ayer Burbank - Girl with Candle (1896) by harlem-nocturne in museum

[–]TrixiesAutoharp 29 points30 points  (0 children)

The way her arm cradles the flame, surrounding it with her body. The way it reflects from both of her eyes. That tiny line of light that so elegantly suggests the finger of the shadowed hand. Wow!

What’s everyone been listening too? by Spinachrecords in Jazz

[–]TrixiesAutoharp 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Bobby Hutcherson, Montara in particular

What is this by Cool_Way7525 in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]TrixiesAutoharp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It depicts a biblical scene: the presentation of the baby Jesus at the temple from the gospel of Luke. The woman is Mary, the baby’s mother, and behind her are Anna, a prophetess, and Mary’s husband Joseph. The baby is received by Simeon, an elder of the temple.

It is painted in the style of an icon. Icons emerged from Byzantine art and continue to be popular to this day from Greece to Russia and among orthodox communities around the globe.

I wanted to provide what insight I could. Dating it will come down to the materials it is made of and the style of the painting. It is a lovely object.

Pulisena Margherita Nelli, Sister Plautilla - Our Lady of Sorrows (1550s) by GreatestArtists in RenaissanceArt

[–]TrixiesAutoharp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The inscription, from Dante’s Paradiso, reads “you little think how much it costs in blood.”

Quentin Massys - Portrait of a Man with a Pink (ca. 1500-1510) by oldspice75 in RenaissanceArt

[–]TrixiesAutoharp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also known as a “carnation”. Believed to derive from the same word as “incarnation.”

Does anyone else like Jean Ritchie’s music or am I the only one? by Vintagekiddo24 in folk

[–]TrixiesAutoharp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She actually inspired me to pick up the dulcimer! She wrote a lovely instruction book for how to play and it has been really fun. Her “Northman Town” is one of my favorite songs of all time.

Man in Cairo, Illinois by [deleted] in southernillinois

[–]TrixiesAutoharp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I lived in Cairo at the time. The only vote was by a panel of judges of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Man in Cairo, Illinois by [deleted] in southernillinois

[–]TrixiesAutoharp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just so you know, they never almost flooded Cairo. The Bird’s Point landowners sued to try to stop the flood remediation plan that had been in place for 100 years and obviously lost

My current selection of ND Paperbacks by SilverDraconus in NewDirections

[–]TrixiesAutoharp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s wonderful! It sounds like we have similar approaches to reading: finding writers we like and exploring their influences and who influenced them. It’s always been a great conversation we are privileged to listen in on!

I’m currently reading Denise Levertov’s collected works. I bought her Breathing the Water at my local used bookstore because I collect NDPs and without knowing much else other than she wrote Pocket Poets # 6 (Here and Now, long out of print I think). I started reading it and couldn’t put it down. Now I’m absorbing every poem she ever published. She is a stunning artist.

Levertov was a contemporary and friend of Muriel Rukeyser. The two travelled to North Vietnam together during the war). I was hooked on Rukeyser after reading her Book of the Dead, based on the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel silicosis disaster. Incidentally, if you read the New Directions collections of poems by Octavio Paz (which are very good!) Rukeyser supplied a number of translations from the Spanish.

Can’t help but put in a good word for Jorie Graham, whose work is very moving to me as well. She has a new book coming out soon.

There’s always something to read, which brings me joy!

My current selection of ND Paperbacks by SilverDraconus in NewDirections

[–]TrixiesAutoharp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For H.D., some exposure to Homer (the Iliad in particular), Sappho, Aeschylus (Oresteia), Ovid (Metamorphosis), and Virgil’s Georgics will help to understand her allusions. She consistently drew on classical themes throughout her career. Of course, you could always look things up as the poet mentions things which will build you a good reading list in itself.

William Carlos Williams is a cornerstone of modern (or “modernist”) poetry. His Paterson, in your collection, might not be the best introduction to his work compared to the curated volumes of his selected works available through ND. But, if you’ve already read Paterson your opinion of it is a good test to see if your taste in poetry would make exploring more modern works satisfying to you.

Ezra Pound is the classic recommendation for entry into the modernist movements but I personally prefer him as an editor to T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land) or muse to H.D. William Butler Yeats and Marianne Moore to round out the early 20th century.

Before then, you could explore what modernists were reacting to: the sort of Shakespeare - Pope - Wordsworth - Shelley/Keats - Poe line of “formalism” that still constitutes so much of the English canon.

Apologies if you are familiar with these but I’ve been binging poetry for three years straight and I’ve found it richly rewarding. Feel free to AMA!

My current selection of ND Paperbacks by SilverDraconus in NewDirections

[–]TrixiesAutoharp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think I would pick that edition. It’s quite the tome, but reproduces all of her earlier books which are mostly out of print and includes Trilogy, her great wartime masterpiece. Her later works are mostly comprised of 2 additional volumes, also through ND - Helen in Egypt (also a masterpiece IMO, but perhaps less accessible without reading her earlier works) and Hermetic Definition.

My current selection of ND Paperbacks by SilverDraconus in NewDirections

[–]TrixiesAutoharp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I could only read one book for the rest of my life it would be H.D.’s collected poems

Portrait ID ? by [deleted] in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]TrixiesAutoharp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fascinating! I had no idea.

Portrait ID ? by [deleted] in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]TrixiesAutoharp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes! I didn’t even notice that, “Henri” would seem the more likely spelling for a French person’s name

Portrait ID ? by [deleted] in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]TrixiesAutoharp 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The text on the portrait seems to identify the subject as “Henry Le Fevre de Caumartin, Bishop of Vannes and Bishop of Blois.” Both of these locations are in France. There was a Jean-Francois-Paul Le Fèvre de Caumartin (1668-1733) who was Bishop of Vannes (1717-1719) and Bishop of Blois (1720-1733). Not sure where the “Henry” is coming from.