#donald davie

[uwmspeccoll]

Staff Pick of the Week!

English poet and illustrator Charles Tomlinson (d. 2015) was born in 1927 to an idyllic and musing environment. Growing up in Stoke-on-Trent and travelling outside the city on the weekends to fish in undisturbed landscapes planted seeds of inspiration for Tomlinson’s future poetry and ability to evoke the feelings of a place.

After studying English Literature under Donald Davie (1922-1995) at Queens’ College, Tomlinson went on to enjoy a thirty-six-year teaching career at Bristol University and publish over thirty works of poetry. His poetry has been described as inhabiting the space between philosophy and natural landscapes and was internationally recognized with awards including the 1968 Frank O’Hara Prize, the 1993 Bennett Award, and the 2002 Criterion Poetry Prize. 

In the throes of a high-quality lake effect fog that elicits an homage to Tomlinson's delightful line "baffled by the choreography of the season..." from Autumn Piece, I'm sharing a collection of his poetry and images, aptly titled Words and Images. Published and printed in a limited edition by the Covent Garden Press Ltd in 1972, Words and Images is a collection of eleven poems accompanied by black and white graphics. It is noted that this is the first publishing in book form of graphics by Tomlinson, and that “the pictures are not illustrations of texts, but texts themselves which explore by visual means a world of light, space and density.” 

View other staff picks here!

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

#Staff Pick of the Week #Staff Picks #charles tomlinson #donald davie #words and images #covent garden press ltd #poetry #graphics

[puutterings]

our preference for the overtly neat and tidy

                                      a symbol Of rationality taunted.   Symbols make at best A puttering sort of logic. Aerosol does the trick

— Donald Davie, “Northern Meters” (for Tony Harrison in Florida) found in Collected Poems (1991) : 436-437 google books preview : link

more at 418  

#1991 #Donald Davie #logic #symbols

[asfaltics]

putterings, 418-415

  digging up something yes and no coffins, canned clams, confectionary signals, logic-haunted original stews   puttering with it is what is the matter now, our preference for the overtly neat and tidy. It works backwards as well as forwards,   sometimes, scratching clack down blunders crushed in rocky chunks of repetition  

puutterings     |     their index     |     these derivations     |     20240402  

#derivation2 #The Rocky Mountain News #Donald Davie #Howard Fielding #Charles Witherle Hooke #Julia Mood Peterkin

[buckypascal]

Donald Glover as MCU Aaron Davis/Prowler

#i was freaking out as soon as i saw the side of his face 😭 #donald glover #prowler #aaron davis #marvel #spiderman across the spiderverse #across the spiderverse #atsv #across the spiderverse spoilers #atsv spoilers #spiderman #spiderman spoilers #atsvedit #spoilers #miles morales #gwen stacy

[humanoidhistory]

NASA concept art by Don Davis, featured in The Rotarian, June 1978: "This artist's conception of a huge space colony could become a reality by 2008. Floating in space more than 250,000 kilometers from earth, the colony would house a population of 10,000."

#space #future #nasa #illustration #concept art #don davis #donald e. davis #the rotarian #rotary club

[lux-vitae]

Internal View of the O’Neill Cylinder by Donald Davis (c. 1970s)

#☼ #donald davis #art

[sangriajay-dice]

Forever giggling at the fact that Donald Glover's Prowler is just sitting and chilling in an animated cell with animated characters walking by and interacting with him and bro just gives absolutely no fucks

#hobie saying that he was the one who caught him makes it even funnier #spiderman across the spiderverse #accross the spiderverse #miles morales #the prowler #aaron davis #donald glover #anyways everyone say thank you donald glover for your contributions into creating miles morales #spiderman

[topperscumslut]

TBOSAS as quotes from my notes app of things I’ve said (feat Old Snow at the end)

#tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #coriolanus snow #sejanus plinth #lucy gray baird #tigris snow #dr volumnia gaul #dean casca highbottom #casca highbottom #coral tbosas #maude ivory #incorrect quotes #tbosas incorrect quotes #tom blyth #rachel zegler #josh andres rivera #hunter schafer #donald sutherland #viola davis #peter dinklage #the hunger games #thg #stoned posting

[dxrlinggxd]

guys...

link to tweet

#atsv #across the spiderverse #spiderverse #miles morales #the prowler #aaron davis #donald glover #spiderman homecoming #homecoming #SHUT UP

[h01vd4l]

#donald glover #childish gambino #prowler #aaron davis #marvel

[filministic]

The Martian (2015) dir. Ridley Scott

#The Martian #2010s #movie #Марсианин #Matt Damon #Mark Watney #Jessica Chastain #Chiwetel Ejiofor #Kristen Wiig #Jeff Daniels #Michael Pena #Sean Bean #Kate Mara #Sebastian Stan #Aksel Hennie #Benedict Wong #Mackenzie Davis #Donald Glover

[brokehorrorfan]

Your prime directive is to slay in Travis Falligant’s M3GAN shirt. They’re on sale for $14 for the next two days, after which the price will go up to $22. Various other styles are also available.

#m3gan #m3gan movie #horror #allison williams #violet mcgraw #travis falligant #shirt #gift #gerard johnstone #akela cooper #jason blum #james wan #blumhouse #amie donald #jenna davis

[beauty-funny-trippy]

#the x files #smoking man #William B Davis #funny #lol #humor #donald trump #haha #television #politics #us politics #x files #x-files #aesthetic #memes #meme #gif #republicans #sci-fi #beauty-funny-trippy

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Audrey McCabe at MMFA:

Multiple Arizona Republicans and members of former President Donald Trump’s inner circle were indicted for election interference during the 2020 presidential election, and right-wing media figures have responded by arguing that their scheme was lawful.  Other right-wing figures have twisted the complicated rules of the Electoral College to make false comparisons to previous elections and pretend that the fake elector scheme was within the bounds of the system.

On April 24, a grand jury charged 11 Arizona Republicans and seven of Trump’s former top aides in connection with a scheme to submit fake electors in the 2020 election. The indictments allege that following his loss in the 2020 election, Trump and his team “devised a plan to recruit fake electors to replace legitimate presidential electors in key battleground states and reverse Trump's loss,” as USA Today explained it. Trump and his then-lawyer Rudy Giuliani reportedly pressured the Republican speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives to swap in electors for Trump based on unfounded claims of voter fraud. [USA Today, 4/25/24; PBS, 4/25/24]

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced the indictment, which alleges that the fake electors and Trump aides were trying to prevent “the lawful transfer of the presidency of the United States, keeping President Donald J. Trump in office against the will of Arizona voters, and depriving Arizona voters of their right to vote and have their votes counted." [Arizona Republic, 4/24/24]

Right-wing media make faulty comparisons to support those indicted in the Arizona fake electors scheme.

#Fake Electors #Donald Trump #False Equivalence #Charlie Kirk #Benny Johnson #Rudy Giuliani #Steve Deace #Greg Kelly #Tom Fitton #Mark Levin #Kyle Becker #Jack Posobiec #Mike Davis #The Hodgetwins

[tomorrowusa]

Sadly, it's no joke. Commentators on Russia's state-run TV really are delighted with Republicans.

This is from journalist Julia Davis's Russia Media Monitor. Ms. Davis watches and translates Russian media so that we don't have to.

Ronald Reagan would be sad that his party has become the biggest cheerleader of the Evil Empire in the US.

Republicans hate freedom and they see a friend in Putin.

Republicans helping Russia by denying Ukraine aid, Biden says

One thing Putin's TV marionettes aren't reporting is the price that Russia is paying so that he can think of himself as the 21st century Peter the Great.

Russia has lost 87% of troops it had prior to start of Ukraine war, according to US intelligence assessment

If you don't have a VPN or even an old shortwave radio in Russia than all the news you get is from Putin's lickspittles on state TV and internet.

The bottom line is that Putin's four day (or was it three day?) "special operation" is now in Day 659. Russia has lost more troops in Ukraine than in all its wars from 1946 to 2021. Snowflake Republicans want to betray Ukraine and throw Putin a lifeline when we should be throwing him a large anchor.

#invasion of ukraine #russia #vladimir putin #republicans #republicans hate freedom #republicans do putin's bidding #donald trump #russian state tv #julia davis #aid to ukraine #stand with ukraine #118th congress #россия #владимир путин #путин хуйло #добей путина #дональд трамп #трамп - путинский пудель #союз постсоветских клептократических ватников #это ВОЙНА а не 'спецоперация' #геноцид #военные преступления #путин – это лжедмитрий iv а не пётр великий #руки прочь от украины! #геть з україни #вторгнення оркостану в україну #слава україні! #героям слава!

[humanoidhistory]

NASA art by Don Davis, 1975, showing a solar eclipse in a space colony. Earth's shadow moves up the valley as the lights of towns are seen in the distance.

#space #space art #illustration #solar eclipse #science #scientific illustration #don davis #donald e. davis