December 2009
8 posts
Peace...still.
“…for a man cannot know
What passes in his members till periods of Space...”
– William Blake’s, Milton 21[23].8-11
Read a Story!
December 16, 2009
The editors of Books@Torontoist, the official books site of Torontoist.com, are proud to announce the publication of an original story by Robert J Wiersema, bestselling author of the novel Before I Wake (now published in ten countries) and the novella The World More Full of Weeping. The story, “Just Like the Ones He Used to Know,” will be serialized on the site in eight daily...
Where are the poets?
Damn Font!
I’m not too pleased with the Tumblr theme I got goin’ here. The font is completely wrong for the poems. I would like the font smaller for example. Alas! the time, the time…
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Poem (Blake's influence...)
Itinerary for the 21st Century Disciple
“Can from those Gates view all these wondrous Imaginations…”
(William Blake’s Milton)
After the Festival one could pass by
bus stops, cafes, even fruit stands and hear
the mumblings of prayers.
I followed, finding myself gathering
the supplications, harbouring the whispers—
un-manifest.
By nightfall the...
William Blake and the Madness of Creation!
There’s a title, yes? I’ve been reading a lot of Blake’s poetry of late and also struggling through an amazing text, Sanity, Madness, Transformation: The Psyche in Romanticism, by Professor Emeritus Ross Woodman from The University of Western Ontario. The book speaks as much as an autobiography, memoir really, as it does a thoughtful study of the parallels between the works of...
