Spinozablue: An Eclectic Journal of the Arts

March 2010

• Happy Birth­day, Samuel Barber

Feb­ru­ary 2010

• A Poet’s Dilemma
• The Field of Being
• What Price Freedom?

Jan­u­ary 2010

• The Head­less Woman

Decem­ber 2009

• Long Day’s Jour­ney Into White
• Words Meant to be Read Aloud
• Two Poems by Robert Mueller
• A Christ­mas Tale
• Bat­tle at Arles

Novem­ber 2009

• Van Gogh’s Letters
• The Temp­ta­tion
• Act II: Strictly Joyful
• The Wall
• The Sur­vivor

Octo­ber 2009

• Fear of the Avant-​​Garde
• The Ethe­real Response
• The Very Thought of You
• Toronto: Poetry Event in November
• The Land of Green Plums
• Another Fine Frenzy

Sep­tem­ber 2009

• The Enlight­en­ment Strikes Back
• Moral Clar­ity
• The Unname­able
• Unti­tled
• The Local/​Global Conundrum
• The Twi­light of the Intellectuals
• With­out a Name
• Missy Hig­gins
• Sense and Starwords

August 2009

• Star Dust
• The Bridge of Warnings
• Black and White Dreams
• The Divine Invention
• To See Through Boundaries

July 2009

• The Moral Order
• Strings in the Dark
• Poetic Street Walker Blues
• Death of a Wizard
• Hemingway’s Move­able Book
• The Ground of Change
• The Sting of the Sun
• Because the Sun …

June 2009

• Dis­lo­ca­tion at Noon at Midnight
• Why We Hide From the Truth
• The Artist Might Hesitate
• Travel, Tra­vail, Temptation
• Blooms­day 2009
• The Great Amer­i­can Novel
• Venus Sleeps
• Mul­ti­plic­ity, Faith and History
• Books New Jer­sey, 2009
• Lakmé Sings the Blues
• Dante’s Peo­ple

May 2009

• Get it Right the First Time
• The Rel­a­tiv­ity of Illusion
• Sac­ri­fi­cial Lines …
• Almost Dionysian Almost Free
• Joy­ous Ode to Rock N Roll
• Wit­ness to Genesis
• Flail­ing Parochial Vision
• Being in Time
• Every­where the Cen­ter (Beauty)

April 2009

• The Cen­ter is Everywhere
• The Seeds of Labor
• Labor Lost and Found
• No Time to Wait: The Secrets
• Ancient Bar­ri­ers: The Secrets
• Pleas­ant Stay Big Apple
• New Poetry Anthology
• The Secret
• Build­ing the Dead Father
• Pity: Liv­ing Only for Others
• Rebirth Comes Soon Enough

March 2009

• Mod­ern Moments
• Altea Rein­car­nate
• Real So Real
• Let­ting go of Pity
• Ele­gant, Pas­sion­ate Witchery
• All the World’s a Stage
• Sup­pressed Inter­nal Dimensions
• The Inel­e­gance of Hierarchies
• The Ele­gance of Observation
• Dream­ing of Greece
• Ah, Greece!
• The Ele­gance of Observation
• Poetry from New Mexico

Feb­ru­ary 2009

• Under the Weather
• The Case of the Anti-​​hero
• Rilke’s Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Notebooks
• The Mys­tery of the Rose
• Hamsun’s Mys­ter­ies
• The Guest­ing Rose
• Charles the Liberator
• Happy Birth­day, Darwin!
• Inte­gra­tion and the Buddha
• A Fine Frenzy
• Look­ing at Ourselves
• Project for the Self
• Mean­ing­ful Searches, Exits and Traps

Jan­u­ary 2009

• The Fall
• All Things Vanish
• Dimen­sions: More Than Spatiality
• Robert Mueller, on Bar­bara Guest and Jill Magi
• Happy Birth­day, Edgar Allen!
• Appaloosa: Time Con­straints and Film
• Free­dom to Swing
• Q & A With Author Nic­colò Ammaniti
• Polly Jean, Punk Noir Princess
• Civil Wars: The Mother of all Oxymorons
• Sense­less­ness
• The Stone Breakers

Decem­ber 2008

• House of the Ris­ing Sun
• Again With the Yevgeny
• Blind Spot: Two Poems by Tony Jones
• In the Shadow of Yevgeny
• Zamyatin’s Gar­den
• The Gen­uine Article
• Library Cards, by Sean Howard
• The Dalkey Archive
• Dino Cam­pana, Poète Maudit
• Murnau’s Sun­rise
• Meet at the Gate
• Corinne Bai­ley Rae of Sunlight
• Orwell’s Vision of We
• Zamyatin’s We
• The Colum­bus of the Blues

Novem­ber 2008

• Just Like a Muddy Rolling Stone
• Coin­ci­dence in Cape Breton
• Poetic Syn­chronic­ity
• Belle Côte Bog, by Doreen LeBlanc
• After the Vortex
• Vor­tex at Midnight
• Regions of the Great Hourglass
• The Plural of Desi
• Poems by Sean Howard
• Ride a Tiger, by Alek­san­dar Novakovich
• The Sur­vival of the Finest
• Much More Than Mere Contrast
• The Play­boy of the East­ern Abbey
• New Poetry From Canada
• Roberto Bolaño
• Being Where we Aren’t

Octo­ber 2008

• A Fool on the Hill
• The Flight of the Red Balloon
• Vienna Teng
• New Addi­tions and Digressions
• Out of the Many, Uno
• Deep Will Call Unto Deep
• The Children’s Idyll In All Of Us
• Homage To Anna
• Christina’s World
• The Vis­i­tor
• Beau­ti­ful Vagabonds, by Desi Di Nardo
• Pizza Space
• The Appren­tice Mage
• Inter­na­tional Poetry Contest

Sep­tem­ber 2008

• New Poetry and a Short Film
• The Shriek: New Poems by Alessio Zanelli
• New Poems by Tony Jones
• Paper Spoon: India Meets Persia
• Prac­ti­cal Ecstasy
• Las Meni­nas
• Magic Moun­tain
• Doc­tor Zhivago: From White to Silver
• Famil­iar­ity Breeds Absence
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Dis­course on Method
• The Gin­ger Man
• Ste­fan Zweig’s Post-​​Office Girl
• Nick Drake and his Moody Blues
• Quick Note
• An Inter­view with Alessio Zanelli
• The Rever­sal
• The Tree of Knowledge

August 2008

• Ancient of Days
• Odds and Ends
• Bar­bara Guest, West and East
• Between Worlds
• Perse­po­lis
• North­ern Lights
• The Golden Compass
• The Lady of Shalott
• Van Gogh’s Provence
• Cezanne’s Provence
• The Wan­der­ings of Aly
• Doc­tor Zhivago
• The Earth Also Rises
• Salinger’s Per­fect Day
• Rebecca Par­ton: To Catch a Phony
• The Foun­da­tion Pit

July 2008

• The Choice
• The Help­less­ness of a Child
• Break on Through!
• The Many Lit­tle Earth­quakes of Tori Amos
• The New Atlantis
• Pramoedya Ananta Toer
• Rothko’s Para­dox
• The Seven Madmen
• Craft­ing Irony
• Irony
• Jer­sey Girl
• Caveats East and West
• Dualisms East and West .…
• The Per­ils of Binary Thinking
• Meur­sault and Plume
• Camus and the Absurd
• Blue­ber­ries and Brandi
• My Blue­berry Nights
• Quick and Dirty thoughts
• Ani DiFranco Writes Graf­fiti on Your Body
• Michaux, Mei­dosems, and the Art of the Uncanny

June 2008

• Still another writ­ing table: Hem­ing­way and Big Game
• The Absence of a Writ­ing Table and Other Bogus Complaints
• Rilke: The Pan­ther and the Writ­ing Table
• Paco De Lucia
• Geniuses Together: Paris in the 1920s
• Enu­mer­a­tions: (On Lis­ten­ing to Hen­drix) by Tony Jones
• The Sea and the Cliffs and the Edge
• Imo­gen Heap: Ethe­real Girl
• Cuchu­lain, The Irish Achilles
• Desi Di Nardo: Why We Make Art
• Never Use An Apostrophe .…
• Happy Blooms­day!!
• New Poetry From Canada
• Three poems by Desi Di Nardo
• Murakami’s Uncanny Doors of Perception
• Rim­baud: Vagabond Blues Redux
• Word Tools in the Dig­i­tal Age
• Artemisia Gen­tileschi: Con­tro­ver­sial Realities
• Quick Update …
• Boris Vian: I’m Not There.
• The The­ory of Un-​​natural Selection
• Abelard and Heloise
• Two Poems by Alessio Zanelli
• The Dou­ble Life of a Mystic

May 2008

• Edmond Jabes
• The Idea of Order is Key
• Akhma­tova
• More Ques­tions
• The Ques­tion
• On the Edge of Endurance
• Six Degrees of Symbolism
• The Script, Con­text, and Lit Crit
• Kafka’s Meta­mor­pho­sis
• Ophelia’s Malaise
• Three Poems by Tony Jones
• Two Poems by Rick Diguette
• Hal­lelu­jah is a State of Mind
• Van Gogh’s Nightsong
• Push-​​Pull and the Repub­lic of the Arts
• Milla Jovovich’s The Divine Comedy
• Brandi Carlile’s The Story
• Time­less Beauty, Chang­ing Times
• Con­tem­po­rary Recep­tion, and the Last Laugh
• The Judg­ment of Paris
• Not There Yet!
• Evo­lu­tion, Con­tra­dic­tion, Continuity
• Van Gogh’s Arles at Night
• A Rock and Roll Revolution
• Kandinsky’s Synes­the­sia

April 2008

• Seven Val­leys of Love
• Gone Baby Gone
• The Para­ble of the Blind
• The Ojibwe Lan­guage: Poetry Built In.
• Rousseau’s Dog
• Robert Mueller: Bub­ble or Tri­pod Which
• Kim Ki-​​Duk
• Into the Wild
• The Girl With the Pearl Earring
• Tying Lit­er­a­ture, Art and His­tory to the Land
• Con­stel­la­tions of Thought
• Alessio Zanelli: Two new poems
• Hal­lelu­jah
• Yahia Lababidi: Monks of LA

March 2008

• The Phi­los­o­phy of Expectations
• Love of Country
• Cédric Klapisch
• Yahia Lababidi: Aphorisms
• Alessio Zanelli: Two Poems
• Echoes in Exile
• Two Poems by Sheema Kalbasi
• Tab­hair ‘om póg, is Éire­an­nach mé
• Love in the Time of Cholera
• Christo­pher Bram: Love in the Time of Gar­cia Marquez
• Tremendismo Y Existentialism
• Shad­ows Dis­placed by the Fire
• The Long Way Home
• Recog­ni­tion
• More Elec­tive Affinities
• To Assume a Pleas­ing Shape
• Poetry as Fun
• Elec­tive Affinities

Feb­ru­ary 2008

• Winds Beyond the Howl
• Abbey Lin­fert: Day in the Life
• Sym­bol Bal­ance the Night
• New Fan­gled Poeticus