Posts in Poetry and Music
THE PART PLAYED BY LABOUR IN THE TRANSITION FROM APE TO MAN

The hand is not only the organ of labour, it is also the product of labour. Only by labour, by adaptation to ever new operations, through the inheritance of muscles, ligaments, and, over longer periods of time, bones that had undergone special development and the ever-renewed employment of this inherited finesse in new, more and more complicated operations, have given the human hand the high degree of perfection required to conjure into being the pictures of a Raphael, the music of a Paganini.

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REALIGNMENT: On the chiropractor's table, a poet comes to terms with trauma

Excerpt from a review by Srikanth Reddy of “How Do You Know Where You Are”: Poems by Dana Levin, in the New York Times Book Review, April 17.…..(Levin variously) attempts to find a way out of her literary PTSD. So it’s quite exhilarating when, toward the book’s end, the poet finds her truest muse in the unlikeliest of places, on a chiropractor’s table:

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