This collection of short and medium-length essays touches on a wide variety of subjects, even as a walled garden can contain a wide range of domesticated vegetables, wild plants, and all types of weeds and trees:<\/p>\n
A collection of short and medium-length essays on a variety of artistic subjects:<\/p>\n
–Art, with a focus on Michelangelo\u2019s Sistine Chapel and other artistic works that display the extreme of energy and the greatest intensity that occurs a moment before action is instigated.<\/p>\n
–Film, with essays exploring the work of Federico Fellini and Andrei Tarkovsky, and others.<\/p>\n
–Paleolithic caves and the fascinating history of the art hidden within.<\/p>\n
–The origins and roots of language, and how etymology, in English as well as in Chinese calligraphy, offers stunning possibilities for poetic links.<\/p>\n
–The fascinating history of early photography.<\/p>\n
–Thoughts on the nature of poetry.<\/p>\n
–How written language gains tremendous power when form perfectly echoes content, with numerous examples from fine literature, including Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, and several other sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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