How I Met And Dated Miss Emily Dickinson: Have you ever wondered what a favourite writer really looked like? Is there any relationship between an artist's face and their art? Hemingway looks like his prose; Ezra Pound like his poetry; Picasso is a dead ringer for his paintings but, say, John Updike doesn't resemble his fiction; T.S.Eliot looks like a bank clerk and Matisse was nothing like his works. How superficial can you get? [
Via Arts and Letters Daily.]
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Jan 2, 2004 -
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But...But Wallace Stevens Sounds So...English! Here's an extraordinary wealth of poets' voices from
The Factory School Digital Audio Archive. Natural curiosity, of course, kicks in with the prosaic question of what your favourite poets
sound like. Some are unexpectedly pompous; others are a bit Beverly Hillbillies; a few are steeped in real
gravitas. But why does reading a particular poet, in years and years of silence, make one suppose he or she hasn't a living voice like the rest of us?
Wallace Stevens and
Anne Sexton, for instance, surprised me immensely... [
Via wood's lot; requiring Real; a few links broken.]
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Nov 16, 2002 -
17 comments
