Flash!
This, concisely, was the message of Reeducation: you must be a child. But that is not true. Axé.
This, concisely, was the message of Reeducation: you must be a child. But that is not true. Axé.
It is the same meditation: how one learned to limit oneself. How one was trained from the beginning to stand aside in life, to be in service. The reason I thought it important to study certain things was that I was so passionate about them that if I actually entered their field I would be … More Sagittarius, the Archer
He has it figured out. Axé.
There was my dream. There is the fact of having been raised from a certain point with fear, or from the beginning with fear, increasing. Fear and guilt and everyone was always so anxious. I am thinking about this. Axé.
Axé.
I just bought two books I should not have, but I really want this as well. (My kingdom for a library — or for a university press bookstore one could stand and read in for hours.) Axé.
This anthology is so extensive, one might as well assign the complete works. But it is an Austral, so not expensive, and well made unlike some of these. And the introduction is rather good, so perhaps it is something one should in fact have for classes … or give to one’s McNair scholar as a … More Merino’s introduction to his Vallejo anthology
La piedra blanca de Enrique González-Martínez. PORQUE YA MIS TRISTEZAS . . . Porque ya mis tristezas son como los matices sombríos de los cuadros en que la luz fulgura; porque ya paladeo la gota de la amargura en el dorado néctar de las horas felices; porque sé abandonarme, con la santa inconsciencia de una … More Piedra negra sobre una piedra blanca
Biographical criticism is the dominant mode for Vallejo as well; it is as though people thought that if they could find out who he was they might then understand his poetry. This is true in one way: if you cannot understand that this writing does not come entirely out of a Western experience, and if … More Subject
(That is what the colectivo drivers on an important route in Lima used to say.) I have returned from Peru, so I can set up course books on the web for spring, contact the high schools, and start building my course websites. I can call the handyman. I am in a position to write every … More Arequipa Tacna Wilson