Greg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach
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In the Suavity of the Rock (novel)with @thisissplice https://tinyurl.com/3dthp3u2 Editor: http://socratesonthebeach.com
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Issue 11 is live. Thank you to all who helped and the great writers and the translator featured. socratesonthebeach.com
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The first full review of In the Suavity of the Rock is out (a couple on goodreads). Thanks to Paul and Metropolitan Review. It's an honor to be read and criticized and celebrated this closely. www.metropolitanreview.org/p/undelivere...
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On Greg Gerke’s ‘In the Suavity of the Rock’
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Great new review of Jen Craig's Wall up over @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social's Socrates: "Her novels are at once obsessive attempts to give a full account of grief-laden lives, & a demonstration of the impossibility, the ridiculousness, even, of such a pursuit" socratesonthebeach.com/gus-oconnor-...
Gus O'Connor on Jen Craig — Socrates on the Beach
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This short piece on Stevens, sensibility, faculty, and Merleau-Ponty follows the Cezanne essay (greg-gerke.medium.com/c%C3%A9zanne...) as a corollary. It will probably be in the book. greg-gerke.medium.com/creative-dis...
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essay in the essay--Relations Between Poetry and Painting. Also the JM Tyree essay on Sebald in Socrates and Alina's piece, Christina's pieces, and Genese's in there as well.
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Certainly Guy Davenport, Kenner, Ozick, Hardwick, Gass - I think those are the poet-critics, and they sometimes go personal. Even the Wallace Stevens essays in The Necessary Angel and Gluck's in her first essay book. The Stevens is quite a bedrock. He will even write that he wrote notes for the
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Looking forward to this one. We published an excerpt in Socrates: socratesonthebeach.com/pamela-ryder
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Here is Anastasia Kobekina playing Vladimir Kobekin's Sappho, which is based on the metrical structure of the Sapphic stanza. This piece is mentioned in my essay in @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social's Socrates on the Beach. socratesonthebeach.com/eric-racher
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“Sappho” - a poem in musical form - by my father Vladimir Kobekin
YouTube video by Anastasia Kobekina
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