by Brian Volck | Dec 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Some thoughts from those wiser than I: “Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them. As the repository of something suprapersonal...
by Brian Volck | Feb 8, 2019 | amnesia, history
A promising attempt to recall conveniently forgotten episodes in US history recently debuted at NPR with a story on the CIA-engineered overthrow of Iran’s constitutionally legitimate prime minister, Mohammad Modsaddegh, in 1953. It’s worth a listen and even makes room...
by Brian Volck | Nov 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Here’s a recording of me reading from my 2013 poetry collection, Flesh Becomes Word, published by Dos Madres Press. The accompanying image is shared here courtesy of John Volck, who happens to be my brother and a visual artist of breathtaking ability. The...
by Brian Volck | Jan 15, 2018 | poetry
Below is the late Richard Wilbur’s metaphorical exploration of one sentence of Thomas Traherne’s: “”Life without objects is a sensible emptiness, and that is a greater misery than death or nothing.” (Second Century, Meditation 65) The little we know of...
by Brian Volck | Jan 6, 2018 | words
Epiphany, Theophany, Three Kings Day. Gifts, carried by the wise, in oddly-fashioned coffers. After twelve days spent pondering the health of words in a sickened language, we end where we began: marveling at the power and fragility of these vessels of meaning. I hope...
