The sky in the trees, the trees mixed up with what’s left of heaven, nearby a patch of daffodils rooted down where dirt and stones comprise a kind of night, unmetaphysical, cool as a skeptic’s final sentence. What this scene needs is a nude absentmindedly sunning herself on a large rock, thinks the man fed up with nature, or perhaps a lost tiger, the maximum amount of wildness a landscape can bear, but the man knows and fears his history of tampering with everything, and besides to anyone who might see him he’s just a figure in a clearing in a forest in a universe that is as random as desire itself, his desire in particular, so much going on with and without him, moles humping up the ground near the daffodils, a mockingbird publishing its cacaphonous anthology, and those little Calvinists, the ants, making it all the more difficult for a person in America to close his office, skip to the beach. But what this scene needs are wisteria and persimmons, thinks the woman sunning herself absentmindedly on the rock, a few magnificent words that one might want to eat if one were a lover of words, the hell with first principles, the noon sun on my body, tempered by a breeze that cannot be doubted. And as she thinks, she who exists only in the man’s mind, a deer grazes beyond their knowing, a deer tick riding its back, and in the gifted air mosquitos, dragonflies, and tattered mute angels no one has called upon in years
Stephen Dunn Born: 24 June 1939, New York, USA Nationality: American Died: 24 June 2021, Maryland, USA
Dunn was a poet and educator. He authored twenty-one collections of poetry and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2001 for his collection “Different Hours.”
The Nude 1913 Constructivism Oil on canvas Tret’yakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Tatlin’s technique and colour palette in ‘The Nude’ is suggestive of the influence of traditional Russian woodcuts, folk art, and icon painting. Elements of Cubism, such as a distorted perspective and breaking down of forms into planes suggest that the painting offers a new icon to replace the old, an icon for modernity to incite people to action and a change to society.
Vladimir Tatlin Constructivism, Futurism Born: 28 December 1885, Kharkiv, Ukraine Nationality: Ukrainian Died: 31 May 1953, Moscow, Russia
Tatlin was a painter, architect, and stage designer. He achieved fame as the architect who designed ‘The Monument of the Third International’ (1919) known as Tatlin’s Tower. Tatlin, along with Kazimir Malevich, is one of the two most significant figures in the Soviet avant-garde art movement of the 1920s
Walking the path no man should go Shrouded in cold dampness Each footstep is too slow Too much is hidden in my soul I’m lost here looking for you
You could make me see through the dark. Into your world enlightened by love But you are gone Too much is hidden in my soul of grief With tears falling in love.
Love, my love, wait for me I’ve fallen behind Lead me out of this place Too much is hidden in my soul but take my hand. I’m lost here looking for you but I keep walking
Badge Album: Cream Date: 1969 Genre: Rock Artist: Cream
Cream were a rock band formed in London, UK in 1966. The group consisted of Jack Bruce (bassist), Eric Clapton (guitarist), and Ginger Baker (drummer). Formed by members of previously successful bands Cream is considered the first supergroup