Tag Archives: Landscape

One off: Justin Thomas Leonard.

— “Pink Eye” from Zulu Time by Justin Thomas Leonard.

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One off: Daniel Shea.

From Coal Work, by Daniel Shea.

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One off: Richard Misrach

“Desert Fire” by Richard Misrach, from Desert Cantos.

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Solnit on Landscape

“Every love has its landscape. Thus place, which is always spoken of as though it only counts when you’re present, possesses you in its absence, takes on another life as a sense of place, a summoning in the imagination with… Continue reading

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The Peace of Wild Things, by Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests… Continue reading

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Meyer on poetry

“Poetry celebrates not only presence but the multiplicity of presence & the infinite possibilities of there. The poem has the power of location, it is a place — an actual (not metaphorical!) spatial event of language which begins in the… Continue reading

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Epithalamium, by Thomas Meyer

The invitation to your wedding came edged in green the same green lines the envelope, the green of new growth on hemlock just as it looks out my window now at dusk, that green is a green to marry you… Continue reading

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Meinig on Landscape

“Landscape is related to, but not identical with, nature. Nature is a part of every landscape, but is no more than a part of any landscape which has felt the impact of man. In this view landscape is always inclusive… Continue reading

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Paglen and the photography of possession

“Timothy O’Sullivan’s corpus is the most obvious intersection of frontier photography and the will to map. O’Sullivan shot much of his seminal images for the War Department on military surveys dedicated to “the exploration of these unknown areas.” The Wheeler… Continue reading

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One off: Søren Rønholt.

  “Island Vegur”, photograph © Søren Rønholt, from Landscapes.

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