A Sensitivity to Things

Walt Whitman’s elegy to a President slain

A tribute to one of the greatest poetic tributes ever—Walt Whitman’s O Captain! My Captain!, perhaps exceeded only by When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, and he wrote that as well. Published in the bohemian aesthetic eZine.
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Adventure within

A tribute to the spirit of childhood past and present, as featured in Inspiration-Letters: a forum for inspired writers with a multitude of backgrounds and interests.
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James K. Baxter: New Zealand’s greatest poet

A biography on my favourite New Zealand poet, and also the most critically acclaimed. Published at PoetSeers.org.
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Book Review: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness and Creativity by David Lynch

A review of film director David Lynch’s highly personal, impassioned ode to meditation, and its benefits for creativity in all forms. Surprisingly, aside from shared auteur, the book bears almost no relation to the majority of his films. Published at BlogCritics.org, and syndicated around the world.
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The Poetry of Death

“Jisei,” or death poetry, is the profound art of surmising a life in verse, normally near the moment of death. Published in the bohemian aesthetic eZine.
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The Most Shocking Ending in All of Literature

A short profile of Yukio Mishima, prolific Japanese writer and author of the most shocking ending in modern literature, on and off the page. Published at Humanities Talks.
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