Cover
Click image to order
Never miss a post
Your email address:*
Name: 
Please enter all required fields
Correct invalid entries

Categories

« Great soundtracks: "Street Scene" by Alfred Newman | Main | "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" -- Great Poems of the World, Episode 6, with David Lehman and Mitch Sisskind »

July 16, 2024

Comments

I suppose we can read this as a positive statement of purpose as long as we remember that it could have been composed by Travis Bickle, too. And that there's a good reason for the basic creative writing dictum, "Show, don't tell."

Thank you for the valuable comment, Jim. The funny thing is, this quote from Cardinal Newman was pre-posted on July 12 -- without reference to current events.

Doesn't Cardinal Newman look uncannily like Rod Stewart? We live in interesting times, as Xi Jinping might say.

Verify your Comment

Previewing your Comment

This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.

Working...
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been posted. Post another comment

The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Please try again.

As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

Working...

Post a comment

Your Information

(Name and email address are required. Email address will not be displayed with the comment.)

Cover
click image to order your copy
That Ship Has Sailed
Click image to order
BAP ad
Cover
"Lively and affectionate" Publishers Weekly

Radio

I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark


from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman

StatCounter

  • StatCounter