"Nude Descending a Staircase," by Marcel Duchamp.
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"Nude Descending a Staircase," by Marcel Duchamp.
Thank you for your kind words.
“From each according to his ability to pay and to each according to his needs” is referred to by professional philosophers as “the needs principle.”
It seems to me that anyone who has more than they need should give to someone who has less than they need.
I was just reviewing my 2009 poetic journal from my trip to Paris, and I came across this verse: “This is spirit subtly and powerfully making itself felt in a life.”
If hard work made you rich, every woman in Africa would be a billionaire.
Can you believe that Native American writer Sherman Alexi has been taken to task for “racism,” as if a member of an oppressed group has the power to oppress members of an oppressor group.
“With malice toward none and charity for all.” – Abraham Lincoln
PURE CHARITY: One which is entirely gratuitous, and which dispenses its benefits without any charge or pecuniary return whatever.
ELEEMOSYNARY:
Relating to the distribution of alms, bounty, or charity; charitable.
Here’s the back cover of my first book. I am especially grateful to Peter Dale Scott for blurbing it. He is a former Canadian diplomat and is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at U.C. Berkeley.
Thank you so much! Here's something else you might like.
Thank you very much for your kind words. I am especially indebted to Codrescu for associating my work with Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. I’m not sure that my text has much “genuine and profound power,” but it certainly is nice to think for a moment that it does.
I’ve had so many thefts.
Here's my prose poem, "GRUNT FATHERS NO FATHERS," which Andrei Codrescu published. Codrescu used to read his hilarious satirical essays on NPR. He continues to write, edit, and publish. By the way, I was so unwell when I wrote this that I doubt very much that I am responsible for it.
Al Gore was right when he said that the Nazi movement was “uniquely evil, full stop.” He was also right when he said, only a moment later, that this doesn’t mean that there are no lessons to be learned for the present day from that period in German history.
This excellent poetry reading took place at one of my local cafes. It is clear that there are some truly excellent poets in Philadelphia.
I read my poem “From Marx to God,” which I wrote in Paris years ago.
Government support for the
arts is very important. I am interested in Francis Stonor Sanders book “The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters.” The socialist realism of the 1930’s was problematic for the government, so it decided to support abstract expressionism instead.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (the NEH) put this entry about Arthur Schlesinger, jr. up on its website. The website says, "The NEH is the only federal agency in the United States dedicated to funding the humanities." I wouldn't be at all surprised if the NEH were a target of DOGE.
I asked Senator Arlen Specter's office to investigate the State Department's treatment of me, and he did it!
