Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Dear Poetry Aficionados, IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags The blog posts of the Poetry & Poets in Rags links for this week begin with five black and white photos in a row. The reason? It is the week of unearthing. Federico Garcia Lorca's body is about to be exhumed, if he's where they think he is, where a stone plinth is near a lone olive tree. In Australia, they are relooking at Breaker Morant's...
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
of manuscripts at Visva-Bharati, has yielded a treasure trove--16 unpublished poems of Rabindranath Tagore. What's even better, all these poems are among the rare ones inspired by his own paintings. In fact, Tagore has left notes at the end of each poem, which painting it corresponds to. These works had been catalogued way back in the 1940s, but were forgotten. from The Times of India: Found: Tagore's...
TW news-features (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Deepavali: “The awareness of the inner light” by Dushiyanthini Kanagasabapathipillai “You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed” ~Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian Poet, Playwright and Essayist, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Deepavali- Festival of Lights was celebrated around the world on October 17th 2009 with great pomp...
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
scribbling poems. She wanted to know what they were about. Tagore instantly translated them verbally, and [Victoria] Ocampo felt that they were the most sublime lines she had ever heard. The following morning, at breakfast, however, Tagore showed her the written translation of the poems. She was horrified, and asked him why he had not retained the first translation he had done extempore the previous...
phoenix (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
" I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever." ...Rabindranath Tagore * * * * * * * * * Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ... Henry Van Dyke *********** "The reduction of the universe...
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