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Wanderings – Emigration from the Netherlands, 1952 – Caravaggio’s Dagger 4:4
This poem, which deals with my parents’ emigration from the Netherlands and the benefits that has bestowed on me, is the fourth of the fourth Taxonomy, “The Waterways of Avalon,” of my book...
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Too Often Not A Dream – The Incomplete Finality of War – Caravaggio’s Dagger...
My book, Caravaggio’s Dagger, is structured as six Taxonomies, of which the first,“The Pyre of the Accidental Butterfly,” deals with instances of war and social disruption. “Too Often Not A Dream” is...
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Colonists of Colour – The Migration of Desperation – Caravaggio’s Dagger 1:2
This poem, whose theme is refugees in the desert, is the second of the opening Taxonomy, “Pyre of the Accidental Butterfly,” of my book Caravaggio’s Dagger. The poem can be listened to here. It was...
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Sehnsucht – Caravaggio’s Dagger VI:3
Sehnsucht is a profound emotional state, often of such significance that it displaces ordinary reality. I use the word for the title of the third poem in the sixth and last taxonomy of Caravaggio’s...
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Caravaggio’s Dagger III:X-XIV – Personal Decision & the Intrusion of Death –...
I was a featured reader at the Glass Door, the Mill Woods Artists’ Collective, 27 March, 7 pm, 6120 – 28th Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, and read this pivotal sequence of five poems that concludes the...
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Cantata Text Booklet for the Holy Days – Caravaggio’s Dagger VI:7
I was asked this afternoon about the origin of the relationship between the painter Caravaggio and my book. The painter’s way of life and how he depicted life in his work constitute one of the...
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Night of the Lions – Kuki Gallmann
Tuesday, June 11, 2002, 2:33 pm, Vancouver, BC I finished reading Kuki Gallmann’s Night of the Lions, a fairly good book that induced a very large desire to be in Kenya again. From it: “Africa is a...
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Beethoven – Piano Sonata 27 in e, Op. 90 (1814)
Last July, I revisited the 1932-37 recordings of the Beethoven piano sonatas by Artur Schnabel. Schnabel, a consummate musician renowned for his intellectual incisiveness, was the first pianist to...
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Letters to Urban Friends: Winter in Peace River, 2012
November 2011 – January 2012 Peace River, Alberta It’s quite snowy here, and the hills in and around town difficult to drive. Banff was much easier. I see from the news that Edmonton had a bad time of...
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