Our Quote Of The Day Is From The Irish Poet W.B. Yeats

—Jessica Greenbaum, Poetry, July/August 2012 At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Lisa Russ Spaar reviews Greenbaum’s The Two Yvonnes, mentioning “the abecedarian ‘A Poem for S.,’” above.

To Jyotiba, from Savitribai Phule: These aren’t love letters, but tell you what love is all about,,In memory of this remarkable WOMAN… 🙌 — International Journal of Research (IJR) To Jyotiba, from Savitribai Phule: These aren’t love letters, but tell you what love is all about,,In memory of this remarkable woman, here are letters that Savitribai Phule wrote to her life partner, Jyotiba – her comrade-in-arms in the struggle for the emancipation of India’s disenfranchised people.Below are translations from the original Marathi,The first letter, […]

Isis, the Mother of Apis

Associated with fertility, generation, and resurrection, the Apis bull was prominent throughout the long history of ancient Egyptian religion. Originally the bull, as all other animals, was revered as the manifestation of certain divine powers and was not itself a deity. Later, however, the Apis was in fact worshiped. Through its connotations of potency and renewal, it was associated with the gods Ptah and Osiris and with royal ritual. Isis, the wife of Osiris, is shown here in her role as mother of Apis. She is identified by her long cow’s horns, distinct from the Apis’s shorter set. This bronze item may have been a finial or fitting for the end of a carrying pole that bore a portable shrine of the Apis.

Medium: Bronze

Place Made: Egypt

Dates: ca. 670-332 B.C.E.

Dynasty: late XXV Dynasty to early XXVI Dynasty

Period: Third Intermediate Period to Late Period

Brooklyn Museum

Finding Silence: Indra Das’s “The Devourers” - Los Angeles Review of Books

The experience of reading Indra Das’s “The Devourers” novel is like watching a surrealist film: it is poetic, playful, and at times miraculous.

Los Angeles Review of Books: Finding Silence: Indra Das’s “The Devourers”

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Below the Asphalt Lies the Beach

Below the Asphalt Lies the Beach

There is still much to learn from the radical legacy of critical theory.

Source: Below the Asphalt Lies the Beach

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Photographer Michael Gaffney followed Muhammad Ali’s storied career and documented many of his finest moments. He also captured a collection of pictures that show the more unseen side of Ali outside of the ring – from time on the road with his family, to impromptu greetings with fans and moments Ali took alone, away from his exuberant fame.

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Martin Luther Kings last day on earth.

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अनन्त का छंद – 7 प्रसन्न कुमार चौधरी घ. चेतन अस्तित्व सामान्य 96. अपने जीवनयापन के क्रम में मनुष्य निरन्तर अपनी समृति में डूबता-उतराता रहता है, अपने होने के अनेको अर्थ उलीचता जाता है, अपने को परिभाषित और पुनर्परिभाषित करने की ज़द्दोज़हद में उलझा पाता है । मैं नहीं जानता मैं क्या हूँ, मेरा मन भटकता फिरता है । ऋग्वेद के एक श्लोक का कुछ ऐसा ही भावार्थ है । स्मृति ही भौतिक जीवन के परस्पर विरोधी…

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