The New Renaissance Mindset poetry

Revisionist Poetry – Don’t Fall in Love, v.4

Rain on the lamppost.White canvas shoes, damp. Genesis in my ear—noise that keeps me still. People pass.She says she can’t love me.Maybe.Why don’t I know?

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The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls is a small book with a temperament too large for its pages: concise in language, volcanic in feeling. At its barest level it is the narrative of Conor O’Malley, a boy living in the daily suspense of his mother’s terminal illness, who is visited one night by a monstrous yew … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

The New Renaissance Mindset poetry

Revisionist Poetry – Don’t Fall in Love, v.3

Rain slices past the lamppost at nightand chills the toes of my white canvas shoes. Genesis moans from the earphones—an origin-song that only shows me my silence. Faces drift past—their small lamps bobbing toward nothing— She says she cannot love me.Perhaps I am already alone. Why was I never warned?

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The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Édouard Manet: 1832–1883 — The First of the Moderns by Gilles Néret

Gilles Néret’s compact monograph—published in Taschen’s widely circulated Basic Art series under the title Édouard Manet: 1832–1883 — The First of the Moderns—functions less as a revisionist manifesto than as a lucid, image-forward argument for a familiar claim: that Manet inaugurates modern painting by refusing the consolations of academic narrative and classical imitation.  The central … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Édouard Manet: 1832–1883 — The First of the Moderns by Gilles Néret

The New Renaissance Mindset poetry

Revisionist Poetry – Don’t Fall in Love, v.2

Rain runs past the lamppost at nightand lands, apologetic, on my white canvas shoes. Genesis hums in my earphones—a low machine-thrum that vibrates my skulland does nothing for my mood. People pass me by, one after another,on their busy errands to nowhere that matters. She says she still can’t love me.Maybe she’s lying.Maybe life will … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Don’t Fall in Love, v.2

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The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Earth Fire Soul – The Masterpieces of Korean Ceramics from the National Museum of Korea

Earth Fire Soul is less a conventional catalogue and more a sustained meditation on making. The book stages Korean ceramics as a living conversation among three inevitable forces — the clay (earth), the kiln (fire), and the human presence that lends works their inward breath (soul). Organized around the masterpieces held by the National Museum … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Earth Fire Soul – The Masterpieces of Korean Ceramics from the National Museum of Korea

The New Renaissance Mindset poetry

Revisionist Poetry – The Cookie in the Icebox, v.3 (a.k.a. My Relationship with a Cookie, v.6)

I hold the chocolate-chip as if a coin from some dead altar, its crust a thin, papery epidermis scored with fossil chips. They glitter like teeth, embers trapped in crystallized sugar; beneath that shell a warm cavity yawns, brown sugar and molasses conspiring there in clandestine whisper, a soft counsel of heat. I might rend … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – The Cookie in the Icebox, v.3 (a.k.a. My Relationship with a Cookie, v.6)

The New Renaissance Mindset art, art history, Books To Read, literature

The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Night of the Tiki: The Art of Shag, Schmaltz, and Selected Primitive Oceanic Carvings by Douglas A. Nason, Doug Harvey, Jeff Fox

Night of the Tiki arrives as a small, smartly produced argument in the idiom of the coffee-table book: it stakes a curatorial claim with images, short essays, and selection rather than a long, linear history. What it proposes—clearly, and with a kind of tasteful provocation—is that postwar American “Tiki” is neither mere kitsch nor purely … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Night of the Tiki: The Art of Shag, Schmaltz, and Selected Primitive Oceanic Carvings by Douglas A. Nason, Doug Harvey, Jeff Fox

The New Renaissance Mindset poetry

Revisionist Poetry – The Cookie in the Icebox, v.2 (a.k.a. My Relationship with a Cookie, v.5)

I hold the cookie like a coin pried from a grave. Its skin is paper; chips sit like fossil teeth. They glint — dull embers in brittle sugar. Beneath: a warm hollow where molasses whispers. One bite would split it open, spill its secret. Violence buries; devouring is a small grave. I nibble instead, ceremonial, … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – The Cookie in the Icebox, v.2 (a.k.a. My Relationship with a Cookie, v.5)

The New Renaissance Mindset Books To Read, literature

The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Dark by Robert Munsch

The Dark (a picture book that sits squarely in his larger catalogue of anxious, exuberant, and oddly consoling childhood tales) is less a cautionary tale than a quiet excavation of a single, universal fear: the impossible-to-see thing that nonetheless feels very present. Munsch’s gifts — an ear for spoken cadence, a knack for compressing a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Dark by Robert Munsch