Pax Pac Art

Leo Tolstoy: “A Lost Opportunity”

Will Shetterly — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:34:09 +0000

Leo Tolstoy’s short story: A Lost Opportunity

“Insensibility” by Wilfred Owen

Will Shetterly — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:31:12 +0000

“Insensibility”

U2: “Peace on Earth”

Will Shetterly — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:16:33 +0000

“Peace on earth”: 1939 cartoon

Will Shetterly — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:49:55 +0000

Joan Baez: “This is My Song” (tune: “Finlandia”)

Will Shetterly — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:54:52 +0000

Edwin Starr: “War” (live on TV)

Will Shetterly — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:53:00 +0000

“Instruction Manual for Life”

Will Shetterly — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:51:19 +0000

Joan Baez: “Joe Hill”

Will Shetterly — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:49:27 +0000

“Misnomer” by Denise Levertov

Will Shetterly — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:16:21 +0000

Misnomer

They speak of the art of war,
but the arts
draw their light from the soul’s well,
and warfare
dries up the soul and draws its power
from a dark and burning wasteland.
When Leonardo
set his genius to devising
machines of destruction he was not
acting in the service of art,
he was suspending
the life of art
over an abyss,
as if one were to hold
a living child out of an airplane window
at thirty thousand feet.

—Denise Levertov