Friday Links
January 5, 2024
The Epiphany by Giotto di Bondone
End-of-Life Dreams: A hospice doctor makes sense of our final visions by Paul Lauritzen
Trevor Cribben Merrill: Three Lessons in Beauty
Wild Butchery of Souls: A contemporary poet aims to capture the terror of World War I by Phil Klay
Clark Weidner: Beauty in Tragedy: The Idiot, Dostoevsky, and Eucatastrophe
Faith and Imagination podcast with Sally Read
End-of-Life Dreams: A hospice doctor makes sense of our final visions by Paul Lauritzen
This is a fascinating look at the work of the work of the work of Dr. Christopher Kerr, a hospice physician who studies end-of-life dreams and visions. Please read the whole thing. Lauritzen shares something mysterious and beautiful here.
Trevor Cribben Merrill: Three Lessons in Beauty
Merrill explores three statements “about art” that have become his “lodestars.” These are not statements he necessarily agrees with, but they are ones that help him to think abut art.
Wild Butchery of Souls: A contemporary poet aims to capture the terror of World War I by Phil Klay
Phil Klay reviews Ishion Hutchinson’s, School of Instructions, a book of poetry about World War I. This book
emerged when the Imperial War Museum in London commissioned Hutchinson to do research in 2016 on West Indian participation in the First World War. Perhaps they thought they’d get a poet “recovering forgotten histories” by making stuff up. But Hutchinson is a reader not only of Jones but also of the great English poet Geoffrey Hill. He is acutely conscious of how we project ourselves into the past, but also of how the past blends continually, and complexly, into the present, inaccessible and yet constitutive of our very being.
Clark Weidner: Beauty in Tragedy: The Idiot, Dostoevsky, and Eucatastrophe
In AnUnexpected Journal, Clark Weidner asks whether Dostoevsky’s The Idiot has “eucatastrophic thread?”
Faith and Imagination podcast with Sally Read
Another excellent episode of an excellent podcast.
