Albie Sachs: Disabled Left-Hand Poems?
Albie Sachs’ Soft Vengeance of Freedom Fighter is not the kind of book I usually pick up; autobiography is way down my list. But I had...
Albie Sachs’ Soft Vengeance of Freedom Fighter is not the kind of book I usually pick up; autobiography is way down my list. But I had...
She is my favourite painter. Googling Agnes Martin led me to her book, Writings. The text is available online in various formats, but...
Sherri Benning’s Field Requiem: this book sent me to the dictionary (well, the internet search) again and again. While there’s nothing...
Cited: Herbert, George. "Easter Wings." Pritchard, N.H. The Matrix. Poems 1960-1970. Here are two poems which might be good fun to set...
A couple Christmases ago, a relative got me a FitBit Inspire™. Sometimes I wear it. I had my FitBit Inspire™ on while scrubbing the floor...
“Is there no way out?” Paz, Octavio. New Directions. Trans. Denise Levertov. Akerman, Chantal. Je, Tu, Il, Elle. “Rooms2020.” Originally...
I recently watched Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles for the first time, and I thought it was...
Pozzi, Antonia. Poems. Trans. Peter Robinson. Alma Classics: Richmond, 2011. I don’t read Italian; I’ve only read Pozzi’s poems in...
I find myself doubling back to Triomf. It’s not really a favourite, but I found a comparison between it and Mrs. Dalloway pretty darn...
The * mid-paragraph is important; please don’t read the first paragraph without also reading the one that follows. Quite a few years ago,...
Big flashing halogen content warning for both the film and the book. Campion's Sweetie often represents disability in a hurtful and...
I only have a copy of Wright's Collected Poems (which doesn't actually have all of his poetry in it -- buyer beware) so what follows is...
I don't know if the Great Resignation is something that's really going on in the world of human actions, or if it's happening primarily...
I dream of an anthology which would bring together the most striking descriptions of old men from poetry. It could be called A Tattered...
Proust, Marcel. Swann’s Way, the first book of In Search of Lost Time. Penguin edition translated by Lydia Davis. MacLeod, Alistair....
Marx, Karl. Capital Volume One: A Critique of Political Economy. Penguin Classics, 1992. Here are a few quotations from Marx's Capital...
Content warning (for the series, not the post) for class stereotypes, racism, homophobia, and antifeminism. Not always/only, but...
Content warning for antifeminism/ableism in these films. Redbeard (1965) This film features one disabled woman and (arguably) one...
There are quite a few Emily Dickinson poems you could read (or wilfully misread) in the context of climate change. “Did we abolish Frost...
Read the poem for a haemophiliac who crashes his motorcycle in Mary Peelen’s Quantum Heresies (“Confessions, 40”) alongside the poem “The...