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12 Apr 201912 Apr 2019Tim Miller

The Great Myths #50: Aeneas in the Underworld (Roman)

Read the other Great Myths Here In an immensely moving scene, after traveling to the underworld, Aeneas encounters his deceased father there: But in the deep of a green valley, father Anchises, lost in thought, was studying the souls of all his sons to come – though now imprisoned, destined for the upper light. And […]

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11 Feb 201911 Feb 2019Tim Miller

Daedalus & Icarus (poem)

Daedalus & Icarus The old craftsman came to Cumae after a long life of art and flight, love and theft, came alone to the Sibyl’s Italian shore wasted with age and reputation to the one who knew every alphabet, the seeress who saw the future in driven leaves: and warped with the same old age […]

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30 Jan 201826 Jul 2018Tim Miller

The Great Myths #24: The Monster Satan (Dante)

In one of the great gymnastic feats of world literature, Dante and Virgil climb the body of Satan, located as it is in the center of the earth. Travelling upside down and changing hemispheres as they go, they emerge to see the Mountain of Purgatory, which was created by the crash of Lucifer’s body as […]

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15 Jan 201826 Jul 2018Tim Miller

The Poet Speaks #1: Fitzgerald, Larkin, Paz, Lowell, Aiken

A new series of quotes from everywhere on writing and creativity: I was in the Navy, and I worked at a shore station in New York. Late in ’44, I was assigned to CINPAC – the Commander-in-Chief Pacific Ocean – at Pearl Harbor, and when that command moved to the Marianas, to Guam, I went […]

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