Life &Poetry Entropy | 29 May 2009
W.S.Merwin deeply connects life with the vivid movement and activity of his poetry, which seem to flow up from an underground river that lies beneath mere speech, as though written in some pre-verbal language of which all later languages have proved to be a mere translation. Here’s a 1970s poem called “The Dreamers”: A man [...]
Books &Literature Entropy | 26 May 2009
This is an enlightening excerpt from a review of Zbigniew Herbert’s book “Barbarian in the Garden” his remarkable collection of essays that constitute a ruminative tour of the architectural landmarks of European civilization. The polish poet and essayist who insisted that civilization depended on artists’ staking out clear moral positions resistant to the winds of [...]
Mathematics Entropy | 24 May 2009
New Search Tool ( Not Engine) aims at Answering Tough Queries.. Wolfram Alpha excels at finding answers to questions that have never been asked. Every new online search service must face the inevitable question: “Is it better than Google?” WolframAlpha, a powerful new service that can answer a broad range of queries, has become one [...]
Philosophy &Poetry Entropy | 22 May 2009
W.S. Merwin is a major American writer whose poetry, translations, and prose.The intentions of Merwin’s poetry are as broad as the biosphere yet as intimate as a whisper. He conveys in the sweet simplicity of grounded language a sense of the self where it belongs, floating between heaven, earth, and underground. To the Consolations of [...]
Life &Poetry Entropy | 16 May 2009
Poet Linda Pastan draws on experiences of daily life and of nature to create direct poems in a spare and engaging voice. Family experience—ordinary stories of husband and wife, of child and parent—are transformed in her poems to prisms for deep human themes, loss, growth, and the fragility of life. I am learning to abandon [...]
Life &Poetry Entropy | 13 May 2009
Stories I Will Tell My Grandchildren… I will weave fairy tales of great ice sheets where fierce white bears and slick black seals once roamed, sliding into the grey-green liquid depths below for harvests of silver fish, so plentiful was this delicacy then. I will show them what romance was in the books and art [...]