Odysseus has become a pseudo-Christian, white, Anglophone man, anxious about the crumbling of the United Statesian Empire (which he equates to Civilization), in Christopher Nolan's recently released film The Odyssey. The transformation of Odysseus from a pagan adventurer, schemer, and lover into a brooding, moralizing prude, anxious about the fall of his own civilization, thoroughly … Continue reading A Pseudo-Christian Odysseus for a Late Empire
一Nadar en aguas frías del Atlántico: placer invernal. Aguas calmas para el nadador 二Salir al muelle, admirar la Cruz del Sur: ser solitario. Vista nocturna Mapa estelar 三Lento caminar sobre la blanca arena: sentir quietud. Vista diurna 四 Márchase Helios. Selene embellece la mar carioca. Selene sobre Ilha Grande 五Venus seduce a su amante León … Continue reading Breves suspiros cariocas
As history unfolds, William Faulkner's Light in August (1932) is proving itself to be an enduring classic. It remains relevant both to the universal quest to understand the human psyche and the human heart across historical times and places, and to the more situated and particular task of understanding the social dynamics of racism in … Continue reading Faulkner: Light in August
Emily Grosholz (1950-2026) was a poet of reasonability and sensibility, of portentous breadth and depth in the subjects of her poetry --mathematics, cosmology, nature, family, travel, love, art works, friendship, loss, quotidian joy, and more--, and of tremendous richness of poetic resources. Above all, her poetry harmonized truth, goodness, and beauty under the guidance of … Continue reading Emily Grosholz: A Walk in the Wilderness
Every day has its beauty. One of my journaling practices, when I don't have much time and energy to write, is to jot down the most marvelous detail I noticed that day (since I generally write at night, just before going to bed). The observed details are often minimal but significant. Today has been a … Continue reading Red Flash over White Winter Landscape
The vital spontaneity of life brought William Wordsworth's "Ode on Intimations of Immortality" to my heart-mind on Saturday, as my family and I visited the Cementerio General in San José, to honor and remember my father R.C.M., my grandmother D.M.A., my grandfather E.C.J., and other ancestors, up to my great-great grandmother or tatarabuela, who rest … Continue reading Taking Cues from Wordsworth: Ode on Intimations of Immortality
Ha renacido el lirio caminante-- flor de estío.
Sol decembrino--de rosas, pasifloras es fuente de vida, amparo luminoso en mi jardín tropical. Passiflora alata Rosa magenta [Foto de portada: Passiflora vitifolia]
Hoy mi papá hubiera cumplido setenta y nueve años. Han pasado casi once meses desde que falleció. Acá comparto unos apuntes de mi cuaderno personal sobre mi lectura de Platero y yo, del Premio Nobel español Juan Ramón Jiménez. No lo había leído desde la escuela primaria. Pero en la misa del funeral, en la … Continue reading Juan Ramón Jiménez: Platero y yo
1 Cantor nocturno, aúlla el coyote en la distancia. 2 Calma tropical. Cintilan, silenciosas, las luciérnagas. La Libélula de noche
Daniel G. Campos 