In its book ‘Upside Down’, Eduardo Galeano carries out extremely interesting unpalatural acts: he unclothes the naked, that is, the big new fruit called supranational companies that after they pollute the planet they come to clean the environment from their dirt – for a fee, of course for their efforts.
The artwork of Lucian Freud Reflection (Self-portrait,1985) contains not reflections but contrasts. Hard contrasts of a face full of harsh internal conflicts, leaving their hard painted imprint on its palpitating mask and their harsh truth in its eyes.
Among the many great artists who performed at Woodstock, in August 1969, were Ten Years After. And among the many great songs played there, was I’m Going Home. Alvin Lee and the other members of the historical British band offered a unique, unrepeatable, performance of their song.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poem ‘And the Arabs Asked Terrible Questions …’, and is entirely given here, is included in the 1955 ‘Pictures of the gone world’ collection. In the 2015 anniversary edition, he wrote that in these poems ‘there is a freshness of perception that only young eyes have, in the dandelion bloom of youth’.
The poem ‘A Vindication’ was written by the great Chinese poet Li Po of the 8th century CE. A multi-faceted personality, having lived both as a hermit and as a traveler to the vast Chinese hinterland, love and wine are central to his poems. ‘A Vindication’ poem refers to the second.
The poem entitled ‘Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi’, which is posted here, was written by the Greek poet Nobel laureate George Seferis, in 1942, in the city of Transvaal, South Africa, where he was found as a diplomat, following the exiled Greek government there.
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