by Charles Cameron | Sep 16, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — how Bill Benzon and Will Shakespeare lead me to Angus Wilson and Ruth Ozeki ] . Comments are now closed on my fairly recent post, Triangulation: Hoboken, Ramesses II, Ozymandias, so I can’t add there to the strand of the discussion...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 23, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a scary thought for a poet, given that “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet / are of imagination all compact” ] . Considering the matter of altered states of consciousness as they relate to terrorism, I’m reminded of one...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 18, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on the necessary simultaneity of temporal and eternal perspectives ] . ** First as to glamour -– it may help to reflect that glamour, our word, comes not from Vogue but from the same origins as grammar (referring to languages) and...
by Charles Cameron | Feb 26, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — contextualizing IS in terms of KSA, Abd al-wahhab and the Prophet, also an interior / eternal aspect of the “end times” ] . Cole Bunzel, speaking with Charlie Rose ** As a poet, I keep my eyes peeled for the superposition of...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 3, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — from the Iliad via hadith to Afghanistan, 2011 ] . Daniel Mendelsohn, Battle Lines: A slimmer, faster Iliad, in The New Yorker: The August 22nd issue of Time featured, on its “Briefing” page, a quote from a grieving mother about her dead...
