Andrea Tarrodi - "Liguria" (2012)
Hokusai - Two Images from "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"
Hokusai - Snowy morning at Koishikawa (1830s)
Hokusai - The Great Wave Off Kanagawa (1830s)
Lana Del Rey - "Norman Fucking Rockwell"
Detaii from "Maharaja Gaj Singh with Court Ladies Playing Holi" (c. 1750)
Photo by Todd Fisher
Marie Laurencin - "Nymph and Hind" (1925)
Mozart - Exsultate, jubilate, K.165 (sung by Cecilia Bartoli)
Gustav Mahler - Ruckert Lieder - "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" (from a poem by Ruckert, sung by Josef van Dam
From "Stoner", by John Williams
“…In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another…”
"I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls" - Michael William Balfe, from his opera, "The Bohemian Girl", sung by Elina Garanca
Photo by Todd Fisher
Bruce Smith
“…The try to come to [and maybe failing] is what the poem does, and what language does as it fails in attempts to be more than itself or care for another thing.”
- Bruce Smith, from an email. Ars poetica in its own right. Read this one of his poems, from “Devotions.”
