by Joe Weil
Memoir
On Poetry and Loss, Part 2
By Joe Weil
I sometimes think African American “cool” and Irish humor developed out of an awareness of the truth that life is not merciful.
I sometimes think African American “cool” and Irish humor developed out of an awareness of the truth that life is not merciful.
by Joe Weil
Aesthetics
The Inward Soul: Dickinson and St. Theresa of Avila
By Joe Weil
There is an inwardness so vast, so total, that it has a true integrity—not the pretentiousness of artistic temper, not the vanity of professional mysticism, not the neurosis of social anxiety disorder, but a forthrightness, an honorable, hourly withdrawal from the world that seems, for lack of a better word—ecstatic.
There is an inwardness so vast, so total, that it has a true integrity—not the pretentiousness of artistic temper, not the vanity of professional mysticism, not the neurosis of social anxiety disorder, but a forthrightness, an honorable, hourly withdrawal from the world that seems, for lack of a better word—ecstatic.