Tag: literary
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The Pacific Returns for 2020
After a long retreat, a deep ebb tide of silence, the Pacific blog returns to regular publication for this momentous political year. The Pacific will remain “a still small voice” in the vast ocean of digital detritus, providing discriminating readers with shorter prose pieces on politics, literature and ocean conservation, as well as the occasional […]
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Some Thoughts on the Milwaukee Rep’s “An Iliad”
Last evening my wife and I went to see the Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s stunning production of An Iliad, the one-man retelling of Homer’s ancient poem, starring Jim DeVita. “One-man” is not quite right, for cellist Alicia Storin is cast to play the musical Muse to DeVita’s “Poet”, and as actor DeVita embodies many of the people and gods that […]
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