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#[1]​ — I’m a little hesitant but also very curious to ask (because of the added verse by you in another convo thread) but what can you tell me about Eavan Boland’s A Woman Without A Country

#reading the poems from the section *Edge of Empire*

“We say home truths

Because her words can be at home anywhere—

At the source, at the end and whenever The book lies open and I am again”

part of a poem

by Eavan Boland from the book *A Woman Without A Country*

“Though Justice Sotomayor references a “commentary on consumerism,” that is not really what the invention of Pop art was most significantly about. What both Warhol and his contemporary Roy Lichtenstein were parodying in their work was the abstract and metaphysical ambitions of the Abstract Expressionist “action painting” that preceded them. By asserting the Whitman-esque thingness of the ordinary things that the Abstract Expressionists so strenuously rejected, Warhol and Lichtenstein were up to a kind of tense and subtle form of parody that, like all great parody, both mocks the source and flatters it by the attention paid.” ~Adam Gopnik

“Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what is the fairest use of all?” So one imagines the murmuring of Supreme Court Justices, after reading the opposing opinions from Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan in last week’s decision on a vexed question of copyright and its discontents. The case, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith et al., turned on the issue of mirroring in art—of more or less exact or distorted copying or “appropriation”—and of what is and what is not fair use when we look at art within that mirror.” ~Adam Gopnik How Warhol Turned the Supreme Court Justices Into Art Critics https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/how-warhol-turned-the-supreme-court-justices-into-art-critics

“What do they think that is, that demands of them

and gets of them their love or their terror or both?

What do we poets do when we know it’s nothing?

Not for them or against them or about them.

Tom, I had to be here to ask that question.

I expect I’ll have to be gone before you answer.”

~Glyn Maxwell from #poem Coyotes by the Eliot House https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/05/coyotes-by-the-eliot-house-glyn-maxwell-poem

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2023/may/carnegie-mellon-is-in-its-taylor-swift-era

In honor my 5th day indoor walk🚶🏻‍♀️… #proofofwalk

Wow— you are my hero. Search was my favorite feature on Twitter. Thanks for sharing

Thank you! I read Flowers for Algernon many years ago— I still think of it’s haunting message from time to time.

I will check out Make Room…

🩵 Swift https://music.apple.com/us/album/dear-reader/1650841512?i=1650841907

I like rewatching it as well— it’s a beautiful & strange film— my favorite kind!

I read it about two years ago— amazing.

#[1]​ tell me about Ursula K. Le Guin

I really enjoy rereading Ursula K. Le Guin’s take on Solaris.

“An early adept of cybernetics and information theory, Lem created in Solaris an extremely sophisticated narrative structure for exemplifying the frustration of the desire to understand. Dense, vivid, explicit, packed with implications, the words of his story lead us through tumultuous, suggestive, successive images to theory after theory, question after question, only to arrive at last at a word-constructed but wordless silence.

One element of this pursuit will delight anyone who has had to read much of what is called ‘academic research.’ To such a reader the hitherto unknown field of Solaristics will be all too familiar. Lem's sarcastic wit is at its sharpest as he goes through the library of Solaristics: the claims of the experts, the quarrels of the scholars, explanations that replace explanations ad infinitum, theories that jostle one another into oblivion…” from “Stanislaw Lem: Solaris

An introduction written in 2002 for a German-language edition of Solaris from Heyne Verlag in Munich, in which it appeared in translation.”

WordsAreMyMatter

Yum ❤️🤍💙

I’m thinking about Steve Jobs

After this — I’m shown a copy invoice code & asked to click a wallet. I tried Cash App but it never opens

GM— I’m helping my mom create her instagram account this morning— explaining to her that I have 2 accounts. One with books & a private one with family— helped her follow both. I’m pretty sure she joined to see who my brother is dating! 💜

And I’m also trying to figure out how to use #[0]​ to zap because I do everything on my iphone phone & after adding the Alby extension to chrome— I have no clue how to use it.

And my books are calling me.

ok 🧡