Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Who is Dante?

Though I can't remember if he's from Tuscany.

English is called a stress-syllable language. What is stress? Stressed and unstressed syllables are a way of describing the different emphasis, pitch, duration (and others) that two English syllables have in relationship to each other. Outside of a context, any one syllable word has no stress -- 'li...

One point that many of the reviews seems uninterested in pursuing is the essential point of power. The importance, even the necessity, of pursuing it while at the same time the inevitable inability of obtaining it. For me, anyway, the movie captures that extremely well and the way that was done was ...

The questions above can be answered. The problem is that the answers just lead to more questions that pretty much sound the same as these questions. In a certain sense, I completely agree. The ability to ask these questions are if not the essence (because I don't really know what that means) at leas...

For some reason, I thought you wanted five books. I've been trying to come up with five (can't do it). At any rate, here's three (Fiction): Samuel R. Delaney's Dhalgren Joseph Heller's Catch 22 * Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children There's a lot more. I wonder if this just might be an ongoing threa...

The Fourth of July Because I am drunk, this Independence Night, I watch the fireworks from far away, From a high hill, across the moony green Of lakes and other hills to the town harbor, Where stately illuminations are flung aloft, One light shattering in a hundred lights Minute by minute. The reas...

"The Babysitters" Your mother was as nubile as a dressmaker's dummy; your father polished his glasses and rubbed his crop. When the Babysitter arrived, with her turquoise belt and raw mouth, your father had never seen such a fine wrist, such a way with an onion! She pinned a plastic hummingbird beh...

Toward the Winter Solstice: New Poems (Paperback) by Timothy Steele Swallow Press/Ohio University Press/Athens, Ohio 2006 61 pages; Amazon price: 10.17 $ Thick fog has filled the canyon overnight And turned it to a sea of milky gray: From the first two lines, I was hooked. It happens, you know. I l...

Best film of the last two years.

I'll explain later but it captures, not the whole book, but an imprtant part of the book.

Sorry for the delay, but this is why I like workshops. I get two quite different reactions to the same poem. Thanks mt. That's pretty much what I was shooting for. Doreen, Certainly, the stanza breaks make the changes easier to um, er, digest, but I wanted a deliberately whimsical tone. Do you think...

Plath and Roethke,

I like you already.

Now, can you find somebody you think I don't know?




There is a lot of good stuff out there.

Then quote.

Personally, I think I fucked it up. I didn't want to talk about intellectualization, I wanted to talk about what kind of poetry you like. Don't get me wrong, I still believe there is a place for intellectualization. That's just not what I wanted to do here. What kind of poetry do you like? Sorry, my...

Staccato sunshine, I'm not sure it works but that's what I'll stick with at least a second or two, maybe more, I don't know. I do know I had to recharge this watch for my father's sake, for my mother said that was what I was supposed to do. We had to follow the path, but we didn't and found ourselve...

http://home.earthlink.net/~arthur505/cult1096.html If only because it matches my own opinion, this is a strong summary of the 90's as I remember them. If you feel this statement is inaccurate or has changes significantly in the last ten years or so, I'd like to hear your take. Still, certain younge...