Brian S. Skeens, EIC.
Mr. Skeens contributes a column, poetry, fiction, translations and blog material beneath the heading Hic Et Ille.
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Mr. Skeens contributes a column, poetry, fiction, translations and blog material beneath the heading Hic Et Ille.
Hiraeth is the Welsh noun for a fictitious home for which all hopelessly yearn; and along with printing literature which gives voice to the disenfranchised we depict, in language, the human heart's eternal conflict with itself.
Hiraeth follows the cue of Milton's Areopagus-the aesthetic foundation of Amendment I of this great American nation's Constitution, and of its ostensible freedom of the press. Precious few boundaries obtain within the confines of this material.
Rhiannon DeMille
Ms. DeMille contributes flash fiction,poetry and esotericism.
Making it new is the sole purpose of literature. This column addresses concerns of the written and spoken words including their larger assignations in the West.
Contemporary culture is fair game.
Deeply felt and deeply moving language, formatted or no, and for the sake of lyricism and perhaps didacticism, seeks to gladden the heart of man.
Crafted prose storytelling in prose is inherently flawed because it betrays artifice at each syllable; still it cannot help but inform the reader how to live, if only by seeming.
The wisdom of many Eastern languages itself translates "to translate" as "to betray." And betrayal of format if not essence is indeed unavoidable when rendering a tongue which is not our own as one which is.
"This and that." Quotidian as it must be this is merely compilation of random editorial musings upon this our life, be they prescient, telling, or absurd.
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