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Blake was very Gnostic in his roots, once you read the Gnostic gospels and books on Gnosticism, you'll understand his vision of humans as fallen, and that for him creation and fall were one and the...

hi. I wrote my MA thesis on Blake, particularly on Urizen, and have read his poetry many times. He's my fave poet and my thumbnail/avatar is Urizen as the ancient of days. You could email me if you'd...

How do you, the author, envision yourself in your work, what role do you play? Are you like a puppet master, pulling the strings of your characters within the narrative frame of the story being told,...

I would answer that although you can’t really “teach” them per se, you can give them advice on how to observe their own thought process, their writing process, and how they recognize and make sense...

hi. i'll be your editor. i'm a freelance editor and writer in nyc, you can visit my blog for my services and writing, www.apoetsperspective.com

i agree with you completely on this. you should read my short poem "liquid language" on my blog www.apoetsperspective.com as it says this statement of yours in "poetic" language.

one of my fave books, he is truly one of my fave authors; i've read all his fiction in print: his style is so easy and unpretentious and he is a storyteller, which is what all fiction writers should...

i would agree to call it more gothic, but its is "science" fiction in a way because the methods used to create "life" through alchemy and electricity are ahead of their time in 1818 when first...

there is the newly published very short introduction to the trojan war, a scholarly archaeological view on it historically, published by Oxford University Press

it's very much a modernist piece in that he is living the nightmare of modernism being isolated and alienated from his self, including his family as part of what constitutes the self, and his own...

all art is fiction, and it is only through fiction that humans seem to grasp certain universal truths, especially of an abstract nature. and stluke is right--personal poetry is bad when it's merely...

hi Krishna,
you might like my blog post "on journaling" that i put up earlier this week on my blog, www.apoetsperspective.com, which talks about this concept of privacy in journal writing in the...

hi Jim,
i'm a freelance editor and i'd love to edit your work if you need it. you can find my blog with editorial services page at www.apoetsperspective.com.

thanks,
Dominick

hi Shaimaa,
you can just insert it i believe without inserting the link itself: just type out the URL string, and that should work.

as has been pointed out--Barrett's Irrational Man is key and really a very fascinating and clear read in itself.

Liquid Language

Poetry is a virus that lies dormant in me,
beneath the frozen soil of my skin,
until the sudden quivering bloom of liquid language
ruptures my thawing flesh in a bloodletting of...

I think an interesting way to look at it is that the notion of good and evil is something inherently "human" in concept; found only in the mind, then moralized through codes and actions. Hamlet said...