Starting on (I think) January 8th, the Instagram account Bibliofeed will be featuring a post a day for a week about books I recommend. It’s a great feed — a post every day about a recommended book by that week’s contributor. Check it out now and you might find something you might like. Just scroll through theirContinue reading “Coming Soon on Bibliofeed”
Category Archives: Poetry
“David Bowie’s Station to Station and ★: The Beginning and End of Bowie’s Reinvention of Music”
The following paper was presented at the 2023 Popular Culture Association Conference of the South in New Orleans in session F 11.1: Friday, September 29th at 4:00 p.m. in Algiers A. Many thanks to Samuel Lyndon Gladden, University of New Orleans, for his work organizing this panel. By 2015 I’d been living in Ohio forContinue reading ““David Bowie’s Station to Station and ★: The Beginning and End of Bowie’s Reinvention of Music””
Liber Abaci
Liber Abaci O! Could any great stone, mountainous though it is, resist that wry, gentle, know- ing look that pierces your dark surfaces with humor like prismatic sunlight dript through summer windowpanes in early morning: you want the light, but don’t want to wake up. c 2017 Jim Rovira
Phosphorus and Fire Lily
The youth Phosphorus entered the valleyas a gleaming light upon a black hill. Fire Lily saw himand loved him,saying, “Be only mine. . .forever!” “I want to be yours, my lovely flower,but that would give birthto your senses and spark thought.” “O let me be all yourswithin my glowing fire. Withinmy rays of light.” Fire Lily kissed Phosphorusand, explodingContinue reading “Phosphorus and Fire Lily”
Oscar Wilde’s “De Profundis”
A Cento by James Rovira Suffering is one very long moment. Time itself does not progress | It revolves.It circles round one center of pain. There is only one season | the season of sorrow.It is always twilight in this prison cell and in this heart. In the sphere of time and thought | motionisContinue reading “Oscar Wilde’s “De Profundis””
The Philosophy of Contemporary Song 