Column: Prioritizing poetry over politics
Not to humblebrag or anything, but my career as a writer/editor and possessing a wide range of interests have introduced me to some pretty compelling individuals over the past 48 years or so.
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Not to humblebrag or anything, but my career as a writer/editor and possessing a wide range of interests have introduced me to some pretty compelling individuals over the past 48 years or so.
A Tribute to Brian ODoherty, edited by Brenda Moore-McCann
Samuel Beckett: A Passion for Paintings at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 1904288162 - ISBN 13: 9781904288169 - National Gallery of Ireland - 2006 - Softcover
Samuel Beckett’s writing often seems to have a religious air about it. Take his most famous play, Waiting for Godot (1953). Two Chaplinesque tramps – Vladimir and Estragon – wait at a crossroads by a tree for someone who might provide an answer to their prayers: Mr Godot. This is a man who has a suspiciously divine white beard, who ‘does nothing’, and who remains frustratingly absent, despite repeated promises of his imminent arrival. Vladimir and Estragon pass the time by singing, eating radishes, play acting, and arguing. One of their first bits of comic back-and-forth concerns a...