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Recent Posts
- Psaltery & Lyre’s New Site
- 123 Psaltery & Lyre: “Agricola Dreams of Flying” by J. Rose Lara
- 122 Psaltery & Lyre: “Communion: a love poem (a villanelle)” by Rachel Bollinger
- Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
- 121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
- Book Review: Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies
- 120 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Return, pt. III” and “Gaia”
- Book Review: Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
- Book Review: Matthea Harvey, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
- Book Review: LoterÃa Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives
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beauty Archive
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Powerful
Posted on September 11, 2012 | 3 CommentsWhere does your head go when you want to channel some power? -
Teaching Sex: It’s Not the Stork
Posted on June 15, 2012 | 3 CommentsSometimes, he would preface with, "do you really want to know, because you won't be able to un-know it." -
Pursuing Youth and Beauty: Why You Should Never Stop
Posted on November 16, 2011 | 11 CommentsToday’s guest post comes to us from Bella Swan. A few short years after my husband, Edward, turned me into a vampire, I was asked to come up with a fundraiser and present it in a PTA meeting at Renesmee’s school, where everyone seemed obsessed […] -
Book Lover
Posted on September 6, 2011 | 7 CommentsI’m not afraid to admit it. I have a problem. I’m addicted to books. I thought I had kept it hidden for many years, but when my wife finally catches me looking at the most recent Library of America catalogue with lust in my eyes, […] -
Window to Utopia
Posted on August 11, 2011 | 6 CommentsWhat would heaven be like, for a teenager? -
All Girls Must Be Everything
Posted on May 17, 2011 | 13 CommentsNow if you're not "hot," you are expected to work on it until you are. -
Woman can’t close eyes due to plastic surgery
Posted on March 31, 2011 | 11 CommentsI just read this sad article about a woman who can no longer close her eyes due to a plastic surgery procedure. And if you’ve been reading here this week, you’ll know that I have plastic surgery on the brain. And while I *know* […] -
Fancy
Posted on March 30, 2011 | 15 CommentsThe willingness to spend tons of money and time grooming or getting surgery is born of a desire to control outcomes, to dictate the potentially unpredictable vicissitudes of desire and power associated with beauty in our culture. -
American Beauty
Posted on February 25, 2011 | 13 CommentsRecently ‘Rogue Cinema’ took a foray into the dark world of David Lynch’s films, to explore his disturbing presentations of the decay of the body and inherited contortions of the mind. For all of you who joined me on that journey: thanks. It was a […] -
Myo
Posted on February 15, 2011 | 8 CommentsI am a Sunday Painter, an I-storyteller, a blogger with a miniscule audience in a big, noisy world. Oftentimes, I feel a mild sense of despair over my lack of talent or panic with each approaching deadline. I'm not going to set the world on fire with my musings on Miss Piggy or Liz Phair, but I am keeping something lit within me. -
Seeing
Posted on October 23, 2010 | 18 CommentsClouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line ...