Blog Posts for Renee Sigel

Unfolding Interiors :The Book of Disquietude. Fernando A. N. Pessoa: The why of a favourite book.

Renee Sigel — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:01:12 -0800

The Book of Disquietude.Fernando A. N. PessoaWhen I first stumbled across Pessoa, I’d no idea I’d already read him as the poet Albert Caeiro. I’d been convinced that anyone to match the poetics of Octavio Paz and Pablo Neruda was an illusory desire on my part to discover that real poetry had not died with them; that beside the artistry of the likes of TS Eliot Poetry Prize recipient ...

The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Published 1892 in The New England Magazine

Renee Sigel — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:25:38 -0800

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, by all accounts, remains relatively invisible today, despite her being of a mind which in today's economic climate would have given the best moneymen a run for their business acumen and money. Intellectually she remains in a league of her own, her legacy, not only testament to a rare gift of intellectual alacrity, but a wordsmith with a soul, ,visonary in its dimension ...

Obama, The Valedictorian of Hope.

Renee Sigel — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:54:08 -0700

I don't believe in hope. I think hope and religious faith are the two most insidious and cold blooded of human conventions:each offer up the unattainable and each incur endless suffering. I grew up in a country whose ideologues exploited religious conviction to validate the most dehumanising form of racism since their teachers attempted to practice its principles during World War Two. ...

Goodbye..sayings of erasure

Renee Sigel — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:44:10 -0700

I've already written in a poem about saying goodbye, so I am not sure this momentary pause in thought, matters in respect of the RedRoom weekly theme request. It counts for me, as this past week I lost a part of me. I lost the bedrock of my life in enforced exile. As the theme has been about saying goodbye; the emotional punctuation of a life ending is vast and consuming, as much as it is ...

Between Loss and Living. (Saying Goodbye. theme blog)

Renee Sigel — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:21:00 -0700

Between loss and living Absences wrench, gut, tear, rake. What follows is an infused hollowing out of the senses: A crushing of the heart and a cold deadening of skin. The soul shrinks in its sudden deep freeze. One Plain-dressed, Sentimental walks Sorrow between gravestones marking memories in the shade of Daily conversations, easily forgotten ...

In Memoriam 9/11 and beyond....

Renee Sigel — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:40:10 -0700

FRAGILEThe ideological differential in elementary calculus of dying has always been a predicament of material limitations: what does one do to create a legacy of immortality?The notion of 'nationhood' is still a material predicament seeded in sentimentality and in that landscape where winning the hearts and minds involves the most basic, cruel acts of erasure, these very acts become the ...

Inertia to Pulp Fiction Highways... (publishing missteps)

Renee Sigel — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:54:38 -0700

Among the most mysteriously and mystifyingly attractive notions to the romantically inclined, is the idea of being published. It captivates the heart and mind and makes anyone, with even the vaguest inkling of the magic of storytelling, daydream at some point, of a moment in which they hold their own book in hand and perhaps even of walking past a bookstore and seeing their book in the ...

Laughter and the philosophy of a leash

Renee Sigel — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:43:18 -0700

Reading the headlines lately about President Obama releasing information about severe interrogation techniques, among which were the more insidious; such as waterboarding, apprarently approved by Ms Rice while in office and having just signed a petition I received from George Soros foundation, I find myself thematically back a decade when I was struggling to give voice to an incalculably ...

Horsewhispers...

Renee Sigel — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:32:44 -0800

............." Polo is karma. I believe. Its also about a way of life. People notice the frills but there is much more. It's dedication. It is love. It's care and it's passion. It is about rewarding and it's teaching. Learning all along forever. And it's a great sorter: The shallow ones become players. Lucky ones become human. Horses teach a lot. Actually the best lessons of life if you ...

The Error Console of our Age

Renee Sigel — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:03:27 -0800

Mark Twain said " We are all ignorant only about different things...." I've always loved the stripped psychological simplicity of this inversion of knowledgeable worth; though this doesn't disguise my rather passionate disposition with things which may seem blatantly nonsensical and simply foolhardy to any mind endorsed with common sense, as opposed to self-serving egoism. ...