UNSUNG – A World of Ghosts and Silent Song – *** The memory of you emerges from the night around me. – Pablo Neruda – *** We listen to the old songs Lose ourselves to their sad refrain The poet’s voice is cracked and raw It is the mirror to our dream’s demise The echo […]
Read MoreA regular shtick in the old Peanuts cartoons would show Lucy sitting behind a table on which rested a sign: “Psychology, 5 Cents.” This image kept running through our minds as we read The Feminine Manifesta by Lilly Hills and Karen Hudson. Not that this book lacks merit. Quite the contrary. But it is a […]
Read MoreARTIST’S STATEMENT I am a painter and I use a range of mediums including acrylic, oil, and pastel. However, color and its power to evoke emotion is the defining aspect of my art. For many years, I discovered a rich arena of color in my cityscape work. Night intrigued me the most, as artificial light […]
Read MoreArthur Schopenhauer once said for an individual to suffer was not to merely “understand” what the other was going through; rather to truly experience empathy is to take on the other’s suffering, to literally be crucified with another as opposed to simply carrying their cross, and Draper’s novel Out of my Mind seems to focus […]
Read Morewhen the man you don’t know jumps right next to you and you can remember his outline pressed against the swaying bridge tenderly as a cauliflowered ear fried against the world, tonguing foam at the horizon at the seized Chesapeake twilight. So I missed it / something felt bright in the dark noisy ideas slept […]
Read MoreIn the last few weeks, I have been given the opportunity to read not one, but two, poetry books by writers from California. Though both writers originated in the same state, that is all they have in common. The first book I received was “Hayward Hometown Poetry” by Bruce Roberts. This was a collection of […]
Read More[Reviewed by Gloria Balderas] Last weekend, Opera San José unveiled its production of The Barber of Seville. I attended the afternoon performance on Sunday, February 13th. Conductor Bryan Nies opened with the familiar overture…that is, familiar to opera experts as a classic masterpiece and to opera apprentices as a background to classic cartoons. However familiar […]
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