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The Allure of the Enigmatic: Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” [by David Lehman]
From The American Scholar (August 25, 2022). Here are the opening paragraphs of my latest "Talking Features" piece: <<<< When it was released in 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up blew the minds of student cineastes and literary…
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A Phone Conversation with David Shapiro in 2009
<<David Shapiro: Today I was thinking that the only time the Beatles sang a Broadway song was when they recorded "Till There Was You" from Meredith Wilson's "The Music Man," and then a few…
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Lear is Real: “Poor naked wretches, whereso’er you are. . .”
Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are,That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend youFrom seasons such as these? O, I have ta'enToo…
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“Snow Gold” by Emma Lew [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Here is Melbourne poet Emma Lew speaking to the Australian Book Review in 2019 about her approach to writing poems: "Writing a poem, for me, is an experience that blurs consciousness and…
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“Snow Gold” by Emma Lew [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Here is Melbourne poet Emma Lew speaking to the Australian Book Review in 2019 about her approach to writing poems: "Writing a poem, for me, is an experience that blurs consciousness and…
