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26 Saturday Jan 2013

Posted by Mark Snyder in poetry

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boxing, double bass, flarf, Hector Berlioz, Lee County Community Orchestra, Les Troyens, music, poetry, prose poem, Susan Scheid, Symphonie Fantastique

– for Susan

Hector Berlioz, who gets one ear bitten off in an absolutely meaningless regular heavyweight title challenge, turns into a farce. Let’s hope the fight is a bit more up tempo. Berlioz, former world middleweight champion, totally dominates because he made his first cantata (1846) ‘scientific,’ instead of brute force. He beat former Canadian champion Gordon Wallace who was ranked 8th. The Boston Orchestra wins its only boxing gold on a production of Les Troyens by Berlioz.

I remember listening on the radio to his 1972 world light heavyweight championship match in England, his “Symphonie Fantastique,” a hellacious battle through the piano scores of Donizetti, Mozart, Bizet and Berlioz, that naturalized the prize-ring among the intelligentsia. It’s a world title fight and you don’t get much bigger than this, unless patriotic conscience led them to help their country to fight the Nazi invaders. Berlioz was the first to use the instrument, a rare chance to hear Berlioz’s exquisite heavyweight title defeat on points.

 

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Hiroshima Peace Museum

26 Saturday Jan 2013

Posted by Mark Snyder in Art, drawing

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art, atomic bomb, drawing, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Peace Museum, Japanese

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Drawing, 3/23/2009.

 

The poem on the right reads in English:

 

August

Morning sun, Lightning! Thunder!

Wind, rain, death.

 

This came to me in Japanese, which is weird because I know almost no Japanese. I really can’t explain that.

 

Dix

26 Saturday Jan 2013

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Dorothea Dix, Dorothea Dix Hospital, flarf, poetry, prose poem, Raleigh, Tanushree Srivastava

– for Tanushree

 

On behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state efforts in education and among prisoners and the mentally ill, prepared by her unique and international asylum, poor and shiftless, compelled to go to state psychiatric hospitals (founding or expansion of more than 30), identify with society’s outcasts. Determined to act, she had found her cause. She officially closed its doors after more than 150 years of service, while plans for Raleigh’s own Central Park conjure visions of wide-open green spaces as a champion for the mentally ill and the imprisoned humanitarian, reformer, educator and crusader. She is perhaps best known for her Dorothea Dix Hospital located on Dix Hill in Raleigh, North Carolina. Dix’s advocacy was particularly confined in the poorhouses, jails, and asylums of an intense debate over improvements in the Dorothea Dix property and the consolidation of DHHS. Dorothea Dix was appalled to see mentally ill women confined alongside hardened criminals documenting the American South almost single-handedly. She had a rough and unhappy childhood, but had humane treatment of the insane. Raleigh’s mayor wants to turn the Dorothea Dix Hospital Campus into an urban park designed for women who are 24 years or older, providing adult women with the opportunity to benefit from the unique American prison system.

 

De liberté

26 Saturday Jan 2013

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flarf, francais, liberte egalite fraternite, poetry

 

Héritage du Siècle des Lumières,

invoquée pour la première fois lors

et principal pivot de la rhétorique républicaine,

jeunes rappeurs bourrés de talents

le triptyque découvrez le meilleur des citations

les notions qui paraît incongru à Philippe.

 

Expression libre sur tous nos problèmes

de société, qu’ils soient politiques, sociétaux, culturels,

dans éléments de réponses aux outrances politiciennes.

Si elle puise ses origines au cours

où sont également mentionnés l’hymne et puis après.

Cette expression reprend les idées

de très nombreuses phrases,

et moteur de recherche de traductions

vous pouvez consulter le calendrier

 

Il n’y a pas de liberté si chacun prétend

pouvoir exercer sa propre liberté

à la dimension coloniale de la République française.

 

Aside

…- …- …-…-…-…-…-…-…-…-…- – —

26 Saturday Jan 2013

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Beethoven, Fifth Symphony, flarf, francais, French Revolution, John Eliot Gardiner, liberte egalite fraternite, music, poetry

– for Diana

As heirs to liberté, égalité, fraternité have done with their precious bequest, sing part of the Fifth Symphony’s finale to the words “la liberte,” brisk and bristling with nervous energy, majestic and stately, like top-of-the-line period-instrument allegro con brio.

Affirme sa liberté! Chantons la liberté! De joie et de liberté!

L’œuvre, the embodiment of the French Revolution’s Liberté, Egalité et Fraternité, a vie, la musique, les idées en liberté jouer pour les étudiants donne une liberté rare!

The symphony orchestra is one of the last places in the Western torment, persistent ringing in Symphony No.5, spiritually a separate entity. John Eliot Gardiner hears an echo of la liberté. symboles de liberté, y actes d’indépendance- les symphonies de Beethoven.

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