Hammer Through Daisies
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Seth Wieck | August 30, 2013
@curatormagazine posted my most recent essay. Surprise, I write about death again. And Dylan Thomas. Irony isn’t bad, of course. It allows us to grasp the nebulae of death or time or memory and examine them as things, briefly, because irony is a posture toward existence that grants the bizarre possibility that things like flowers […]
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Finalist in Narrative’s 2013 Spring Contest
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Seth Wieck | August 28, 2013
“Lantern, Name Thy Bearer”, an excerpt from a long story I’ve been working on, was selected as a finalist in Narrative Magazine’s 2013 Spring Contest. Here’s a list of the finalists, a group in which I’m proud to be found: Jerad Alexander On Our Next Stop in Modern War Robert Bausch Rescue Joe David Bellamy […]
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Melville without Milton
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Seth Wieck | August 19, 2013
Like Shelley and Blake, Melville was charmed by the individualism and heroic striving of Milton’s Satan, and he imbued Ahab with the same sense of outsized self-mythologizing. His rereading of Paradise Lost during the composition of Moby Dick significantly altered the novel’s meaning and mythic scope. The extraordinary fact is that as late as 1849 […]
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His Tomb Is With Us To This Day
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Seth Wieck | August 14, 2013
Once again, the fine folks @curatormagazine have posted one of my essays. I have a few more scheduled over the next several weeks, so I’ll keep you informed. http://www.curatormagazine.com/seth-wieck/his-tomb-is-with-us-to-this-day/ My nephew Jude was stillborn. The diagnosis came early in the pregnancy: an extra chromosome written into the genetic language would lead to, among other maladies, […]
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Seth Wieck | August 13, 2013
There is a certain kind of fascination, a strictly artistic fascination, which arises from a matter being hinted at in such a way as to leave a certain tormenting uncertainty even at the end. It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world. One of […]
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Seth Wieck | August 6, 2013
The task theology has to fulfill is continually to stimulate and lead [the community] to face squarely the question of the proper relation of their human speech to the Word of God, which is origin, object, and content of this speech. Barth, Karl. Evangelical Theology: An Introduction. William B. Eerdman’s Publishing Company, Grand Rapids. 1979. p […]
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Seth Wieck | August 6, 2013
Blaisedell, the poet, had said to him, “You love beer so much. I’ll bet some day you’ll go in and order a beer milk shake.” It was a simple piece of foolery but it had bothered Doc ever since. He wondered what a beer milk shake would taste like. The idea gagged him but he […]
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