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W.B. Yeats: Poet, Playwright, Magician
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“When it gets loudly, IT GETS VERY LOUD INDEED”
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Bard Bloomberg
Mayor Mike Bloomberg: billionaire, philanthropist, corn syrup’s nemesis, and… poet?
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Biological Music
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Literary Pets and Pet Names
If you read one article on literary pets and pet names today, make it this one.
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Elena Ferrante Revealed
Elena Ferrante has revealed her true identity. At McSweeney’s. You could also read this piece on Ferrante’s “encompassing vision of human experience.”
Wild Wells
Recommended Reading: Wells Tower's short story "Wild America" at The Oxford American.
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Poetry of Brotherhood
Recommended Reading: The Missouri Review's new poem of the week, Kai Carlson-Wee's “Jesse James Days,” which also won its 2013 Editors' Prize. "If I carried your name to the skateparks and railroad temples of rust, would you come to me, brother."
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Looking forward to reading about this. Someone– think it is Brenda Maddox– has a bio of Yeats focused on his love of the supernatural. what really stuck with me from that book, however, was that Yeats struggled with learning to read. I believe he was 7 or 8 before he did. His father– the painter Jack B. Yeats–used to throw books at William Butler’s head, which just about broke my heart. And his mother was very remote, but took pleasure in telling them fairy tales of west of Ireland.
There is a new book that is available on Amazon called “W.B. Yeats and the Secret Masters of the world.” Its a fictional account of his involvement with the occult and the Golden Dawn. I thought it was a fantastic read and for anyone interested in Yeats or the Golden Dawn I highly recommend it. The author is Peter Jennings and it only came out recently as far as I know. Although it is fictional and fairly satirical it seems clear that the writer has done his research and his presentation of Yeats as a character has been accomplished in a thoughtful manner.
Link for anyone interested:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Yeats-Secret-Masters-World-ebook/dp/B00APLNSMG/ref=zg_bs_426323031_46