http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz9whmoKj9U#t=3074
Those who are aware of Genet’s works & life & those writers who prevailed in getting his freedom from prison such as Cocteau & Sartre, will find this interview fascinating of one of France’s most extraordinary writers & poets. The subtitles are excellent in English but you might have to use the caption button to secure them.
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Mark Strand is a Canadian-born American poet, essayist, and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990.
Charles Wright is an American poet. He shared the National Book Award in 1983 for Country Music: Selected Early Poems and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for Black Zodiac. In June 2014, he was named Poet Laureate of the United States
Love your voice man and you do the sad song so right. Like that accompanying acoustic fill ins…adds a nice touch to an already good song!
Nice and truthful ! A genuine piece of soulful folk music, with pretty lines of acoustic guitar and a most touching plainness. ***
Here’s another sad song
that’s all I have
I’m just getting along
doing the best that I can
All I know is
wishing you were here
And all there is
Is sitting here alone
I was wrong
and now I pay the price
of lonely days
and sleepless nights
I was wrong
and I’ve acted quite the fool
It’s like I set out all along
to just be mean to you
They judge me so hard
They say that I’m no good
And I’m sorry doesn’t have
the ring that it should
and missing you
is the price that I have to pay
I’m so sad that it turned out this way.
So here’s another sad song
It’s the best I can do
and I’m just getting along
missing you
Holmium
Janet Kuypers
from the “Periodic Table of Poetry”” series (#67, Ho)
7/18/13
Got a set of poetry word magnets
(so you could arrange words on your fridge
to write a message, or write a poem),
and even though I remembered
that magnets have two sides with two poles,
I still took one of the magnets
(I think the word on this magnet was “stick”)
and turned it around, to see
how it wouldn’t stick to the fridge.
Now, Holmium has the highest
magnetic strength of any element,
so I thought about this magnet’s poles —
but I didn’t know that scientists
have been using Holmium
to try to discover the widely theorized
and avidly debated “magnetic monopole”
(a magnet that only has one pole).
Grand unified and superstring theories
predict their existence, and these
magnetic monopoles could explain a ton
about space, time, and the laws of physics.
But the theory is that there’s so little of it,
and nobody’s been able to even find it,
so they’ll keep using this magnetic Holmium
to try to find this hypothetical particle…
And it’s strange, when it comes to Holmium,
I mean, it’s used to color cubic zirconia…
And when it comes to that magnetism,
Holmium can even absorb nuclear neutrons.
But the cool thing is that Holmium
is used for dental and medical purposes,
and it’s even used with solid state lasers
to remove some early stage cancers
with only a local anesthetic.
Wow, that
and it can help scientists
understand more about the universe
(even if it’s only on a quantum level).
I guess there was a reason why
I was so drawn to these qualities….
