Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
Yesterday I posted about a now-lost Naxos sampler CD which included a version of “Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal” I now long to hear. It also included Messiaen’s “O…
Originally posted on Creo en Dios!:
Today’s Gospel is the familiar passage in Luke that we often refer to as Finding Jesus in the Temple. Twelve-year old Jesus and his…
At First Known When Lost, Stephen Pentz collects some versions of fragmentary lines by the Spartan lyric poem Alcman. This fragment was used by Edgar Allan Poe for the epigraph…
“It is said that prose is closer to reality than poetry. I think this is wrong. There is an idea that has been attributed to the short story writer Horacio…
Séamus Sweeney 