by Brian Volck | Mar 27, 2013 | kenosis, liberation, poetry
For Pesach and Holy Week, an older poem of mine, engaging the great festivals in a slantwise way: Francis and the Leper (for Richard Rohr) They both stank (it was not a time obsessed with odorlessness). Doubtless both were frightened: the God-besotted penitent...
by Brian Volck | Mar 14, 2013 | art
I learned today, via the UK’s Telegraph, that I share with newly-elected Pope Francis a favorite painting: Marc Chagall’s White Crucifixion. We also share an appreciation for the film, Babette’s Feast, his favorite, though I’d place Gabriel Axel’s masterpiece just...
by Brian Volck | Mar 1, 2013 | Accountability
Consider this website an experiment. If it keeps me accountable to the work, it will have been successful. If it merely calls attention to me, it’s an exercise in vanity. It’s the work that counts. The work is writing. It’s bracing to tell people, “I’m a writer,” not...
by Brian Volck | Mar 1, 2013 | Publication
My wife, Jill, will tell you that I keep my successes to myself and downplay them when made public. It’s another vanity, a fantasy about being discovered without appearing to peddle my wares, a refusal to share the small victories of a life. It’s a habit I should...
