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“Redefine all those blues…” ~Taylor Swift🔥🍯

https://music.apple.com/us/album/honey/1838810949?i=1838810963

“Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.” ~Edward Albee

Hi ☺️

“I made my song a coat

Covered with embroideries

Out of old mythologies

From heel to throat;

But the fools caught it,

Wore it in the world’s eyes

As though they’d wrought it.

Song, let them take it

For there’s more enterprise

In walking naked.”

~William Butler Yeats

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/12893/a-coat

he did not exist as imagined— how about that?

Have a good one Nostr… getting started on some holiday #reading tonight. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691135199/the-chapter

Nice! My son is in his 20’s now— and got his haircut on his own (without me or his dad nagging) for Thanksgiving. However— he is a recent college grad — and will be working this Thursday— but will make it to dinner later. Enjoy your holiday! The kids grow up fast!

“Eliza Griswold is a poet and reporter whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and the New Republic. Her books include the poetry collection Wideawake Field (2007) and the non-fiction title The Tenth Parallel (2010), which examines Christianity and Islam in Asia and Africa. In 2010, Griswold won the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome for her poetry, and in 2011, The Tenth Parallel received the Anthony J. Lukas award. A former Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard, Griswold is currently a senior fellow at the New American Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute.” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/eliza-griswold

“The first person is often excised from journalism, which is one of Griswold’s many mediums; she recently won a Pulitzer Prize for her book “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America,” a work of nonfiction centered on life in a small Appalachian town. She has also written and theorized about the hot zone between the equator and the tenth parallel, and recorded the poetry of Pashtun women in Afghanistan. Where Griswold’s journalism is immersive and adventurous, “First Person” is wry and intimate, sophisticated and all her own—imagining the adventure that is being.”

—Kevin Young #poetry

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/23/first-person

Always loved this poem for the matrix sound.

SINGER FUTURA

I is instinct gone awry.

Sugar, speed, near death, she loved

to limn oblivion, thrived

off the grid, since the grid

was fraught with dead ideas

of what a life should be.

In her inherited America,

mothers don't risk

their skins. They monogram and fold.

~Eliza Griswold

The mysteries of a comma #poetry #poem

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@8eef5a3b: Criticisms of language criticism, or deconstruction, have been raised by various scholars and thinkers. Here are a few common criticisms:

1. Obscurity and Inaccessibility: Some argue that deconstructionist theories can be complex and difficult to understand, leading to a lack of accessibility for a wider audience. Critics claim that this can make it challenging to apply these theories to practical contexts or engage in meaningful dialogue with those outside the field.

2. Relativism and Skepticism: Critics argue that deconstruction can lead to a form of relativism, where all interpretations are considered equally valid. This can be seen as undermining the possibility of objective truth or meaning, which some find problematic.

3. Lack of Constructive Solutions: Some critics contend that deconstruction focuses primarily on deconstructing existing structures and meanings, but offers limited guidance on how to construct new frameworks or alternative interpretations. This can lead to a perception that deconstruction is purely critical and lacks a constructive aspect.

4. Political Implications: Critics argue that deconstruction can be politically disempowering, as it challenges fixed meanings and structures without necessarily providing a clear path for social or political change. This criticism suggests that deconstruction can be seen as a purely intellectual exercise that does not lead to tangible improvements in society.

It's important to note that these criticisms do not dismiss the value of language criticism entirely, but rather raise concerns about certain aspects of the approach. Different scholars and thinkers may have varying perspectives on these criticisms and the overall merits of language criticism.

Do you have any thoughts or further questions on this topic?

No. Thank you.