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Matt Blick e-mailed me just after January 1st, asking what my songwriting goals are going to be over the coming year. Hmm. What’d I accomplish in 2010? Wrote ~150 songwriting articles for this …
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The experiences you create are the moments that define you. We'll miss you when you're gone, because we will always remember the mark you made on us. There's a sign on most squash courts …
(Raimon) discusses the art of the listener (li auzidor) and [their] responsibility to understand the troubadour works. Raimon's insistence that the audience understand what is sung and that they keep …
In his timeless Inferno, Dante Alighieri uses sensory imagery to immerse us in his dark underworld: the far-off wailing of the damned; the bubbling of a dark purple river of blood; the orange glow and …
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Dante’s thought tends to conclude at the end of each tercet… [which] clearly determines the “pace” of the writing; i.e., the rate at which it reveals itself to the reader. -Inferno translator John …
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“I have not hesitated to use a deficient rhyme when the choice seemed to lie between forcing an exact rhyme and keeping the language more natural.” -Inferno translator John Ciardi If you’ve been …
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