Cloud Poetry

Readings of poems by William Blake, Du Fu, Basho. 10 haiku in the wabi sabi style by Basho (1644). 4 short poems by William Blake (1789). Two poems by world-weary drunkard Du Fu (766)

Segments from “Brunelleschi’s Dome” by Ross King about the conception and building of Firenze’s Duomo cupola.

From classic English poets and writers

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Select poems from Hafez (1315-1390), a Persian poet who "lauded the joys of love and wine but also targeted religious hypocrisy".

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Short stories from Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Widow Ching - Pirate”

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Poems from Yanyi’s The Year of Blue Water

Excerpts from “Caste: The origins of our discontents”, in which Wilkerson gives a masterful portrait of the hierarchical caste and racial ranking divisions operating invisibly throughout American society.

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Dealing with themes of decadence and eroticism, Les fleurs du mal, Charles Baudelaire’s volume of poems first published in 1857, was enormously influential in the symbolist and modernist literature movements. Read in French and English.

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Short stories from We Others

Excerpts from George Kuber’s “The Shape of Time”, Remarks on the History of Things. Drawing upon insights in anthropology and linguistics, Kubler replaced the notion of style as the basis for histories of art with the concept of historical sequence and continuous change across time.

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