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Chapel of Relics
The glacial white paint comes peeling away
From the monumental doorframe,
Peeling away in great strips like some fabulous
Undiagnosed disease:
And the columns all around are cold and mottled,
Pale and dead and grey.
I stand at the grate,
Looking in through holy prison-bars
Rich with swirling ironwork arabesques
Moorish Palermo turned baroque. [Continue reading...]
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The Vocation of Flannery O’Connor
The upcoming edition of Dappled Things (due out at the end of January) features three essays that explore the work of Flannery O’Connor from different perspectives. The author of one of these essays, Fr. Damian Ference, has written a great little introduction to her life and work over at the Word On Fire blog: At first [...]
An Important Message from Arthur Powers
Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbor and the humanity as a whole. (Pope John Paul II) Friends— Those of [...]
The Symbolism Survey – via the Paris Review
The Paris Review tells the story of a project begun in 1963 by Bruce McAllister, then a precocious high school student: …McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed survey to 150 well-known authors of literary, commercial, and science fiction. Did they consciously plant symbols in their work? he asked. Who noticed symbols appearing from their subconscious, and [...]