Glenn Ligon's first solo exhibition in Italy borrows its title from a line in Pier Paolo Pasolini's poem Ma Era L'Italia Nuda E Formicolante / But It Was a Naked and Swarming Italy, in which he depicts the privations and poetic possibility of the country during the post-war period. (galleriesnow.net)
Now we'll have all the indigenous American poetic possibilities — American Thomism (the WP synthesis of Stoicism and Christianity), the purer southern Stoicism of the man in full, the defender of the «spirit» of American liberty against despotic materialism, agrarianism, and the neo-Puritanical or Calvinist defender of egalitarianism without condescension. (firstthings.com)
I'm very serious when I say that any account of America that doesn't incorporate what's true and noble about each of these five poetic possibilities is deficient. (firstthings.com)