Our little place-blogging community has shown up on this week’s Carnival of the Vanities. Thanks to all who made it happen. Now go over there and read what these really interesting people have written about. Scroll down to the bottom to see the place blogging entry.
There is an amazing thing happening out there, in this post-Easter world. I admit to being a spellbound observer of the whole thing. Here’s the play by play: Bellona Times started the ball rolling with a riff on a Francis Bacon essay that treats Pontius Pilate as a sympathetic colonial bureaucrat who had been tricked by Jesus into fulfilling a prophecy he wanted no part of: Pilate’s patience is remarkable. Like later totalitarian regimes, neither imperial Rome nor Tudor England held truck with silence; self-incrimination was their favorite evidence, and they had no scruples about getting it. In fact, the …
Creation is a poem Poem, which is “creation” in Greek and thus St. Paul calls God’s Creation, POIEMA, like a poem by Homer, Padre Angel used to say. Each thing is like a “like” Like a “like” in a Huidobro poem. The entire cosmos copulation. And each thing is word, word of love. — Ernesto Cardenal Cosmic Canticle, Cantiga 2 “The Word” Vincente Huidobro (1893-1948) was a Chilean poet. He founded a school of poetry called “Creacionismo” or “creationism” “Creacionismo was the apotheosis for Huidobro, a space where the poet could assume a role as the divine. In his poem …