Gertrude Stein—how we’ve been told you are obtuse, impossible, all but meaningless, when in fact you are loving, inventive, playful, sexual, flirtatious, silly. Why has it been easier for the world to imagine Gertrude as a stern remote genius than as a woman of brilliant mind and wit passionately in love with another woman? Wonder [...]
Posts Tagged ‘revery’
Dear dainty delicious darling
Posted in Lesbian Conspiracy, tagged gertrude, revery, what's love got to do with it? on June 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Blackberry Eating
Posted in Great Poems or Pieces Thereof, tagged instinctual groping, language, revery on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Blackberry Eating by Galway Kinnell I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry making; and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest [...]
Mark Twain’s 19 Rules Governing Literary Art
Posted in Chickens gone over the edge, On The Art of Poetry, tagged Fenimore Cooper, good advice if you can get it, Mark Twain, revery, satire, snap!, writing on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Twain’s brutally funny essay on Fenimore Cooper’s literary offenses in the Deerslayer series. I thought of this essay on Saturday at the Brandywine River Museum, standing in front of one of N.C. Wyeth’s illustrations for Deerslayer. Here’s the beginning of the essay; I’ll put the link to the whole piece at the bottom. It [...]
The Lesbian Bears
Posted in Great Poems or Pieces Thereof, tagged good advice if you can get it, Martha Courtot, revery on June 3, 2009 | 18 Comments »
The Lesbian Bears Martha Courtot here they have not heard of lesbian bears if they knew they would be afraid they would form a vigilante party to hunt wild perverse bear in the mountains at night while they slept in the open they would dream of unnatural acts in brown fur a female bear would [...]
Bee! I’m expecting you!
Posted in Great Poems or Pieces Thereof, tagged bees, revery on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bee! I’m expecting you! Emily Dickinson 1035 Bee! I’m expecting you! Was saying Yesterday To Somebody you know That you were due— The Frogs got Home last Week— Are settled, and at work— Birds, mostly back— The Clover warm and thick— You’ll get my Letter by The seventeenth; Reply Or better, be with me— Yours, [...]
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bees, Emily Dickinson, revery on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee Emily Dickinson 1755 To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
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