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Don’t miss this thrilling event about the meaning of poetry & the understanding of yourself!

Poetry Is a Making One of Opposites • With examples from Keats, Omar Khayyám, Blake, Poe, & more, Eli Siegel describes what poetry truly is:

“All poems have in them a oneness of opposites: as seen by the individual who wrote the poem….Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey is a oneness of meditation and excitement. Yet, oneness and manyness are in Tintern Abbey–as are order and freedom, continuity and discontinuity–and other opposites.”

Poems by Eli Siegel, including “To Dylan Thomas”

Poetry, Anna Akhmatova, & Our Two Ambitions by Aesthetic Realism Chairman of Education Ellen Reiss

“When Anna Akhmatova wrote Russian verse, she was terrifically fair to herself and fair to the world at the very same moment. She could describe a thing–a certain kind of light, bridges across the Neva, a sound–in such a way that it stuck, was there, and also reverberated with suggestion.”

 

How Much Feeling? Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson of Leo McDonald

“One’s greatest question can be put very simply: Do I feel the world in the right way? Do I have the best feeling for people and things not myself, near and far? “–Eli Siegel

Poems by Ellen Reiss, Margot Carpenter, Karen Van Outryve, Dorothy Koppelman

And from the 1959 book Personal and Impersonal: 6 Aesthetic Realists we present poems by: Sheldon Kranz, Louis Dienes,
Nancy Starrels, Nat Herz, Martha Baird, Rebecca Fein.

Contri. $10

Aesthetic Realism Foundation
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New York, NY 10012
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www.AestheticRealism.org