Trailer for Detention #2, published last year by #Fantagraphics. This is #comics artist #TimHensley's idiosyncratic retelling of Maggie: A Girl from the Streets, a realist novella originally written by 19th century author #StephenCrane. More than worth the trouble it'll take to get your mitts on a copy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI6lNya6Xc8

"In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter -- bitter," he answered;

"But I like it
"Because it is bitter,
"And because it is my heart."

#StephenCrane #poetry #irlThough

#StephenCrane #ALA. Call for proposals!

Places among the stars,
Soft gardens near the sun,
Keep your distant beauty;
Shed no beams upon my weak heart.
Since she is here
In a place of blackness,
Not your golden days
Not your silver nights
Can call me to you.
Since she is here
In a place of blackness,
Here I stay and wait.
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"Places among the stars" is the first song from Lowell Liebermann's Three Poems of Stephen Crane, op. 11 song cycle.

Date: 1983
Composer: Lowell Liebermann
Text: #StephenCrane
#song #fall #place