It is perhaps one of the more immediately striking partnerships in the history of music. On one side we have Tuomas Holopainen, pianist and lyricist for Finland’s most successful symphonic heavy-metal band Nightwish. On the other, Professor Richard Dawkins, Emeritus…
The shepherd’s brow, fronting forked lightning, owns The horror and the havoc and the glory Of it…. —G. M. Hopkins, ‘The Shepherd’s Brow,’ 1918. Be they figures truly Christ-like, or those of severe morality or utter wickedness, priests have remained…
This is the final post of a collaborative series, A Lenten Journey: Poetic Reflections, featuring the poetry of Gerald St. Maur alongside the photography of Rev. Thomas Braur. Resurrection His body spent and sealed from view, the body politic had…
The Third Fall But crowds grow impatient with pause, their power lost in the irritant of reflection. A clenched fist thrust in His face was all it took for Jesus to smile back and resume his climb. His feet now…
This is the second of a three-part collaborative series featuring the poetry of Gerald St. Maur and the photography of Rev. Thomas Brauer. Mother Mary Chant is but the music of the mob, unheard by those not belonging to it, their…
This week Transpositions is honored to feature a series of collaborative meditations on the events of Lent by drawing together the poetry of Gerald St. Maur and the photography of Rev. Thomas Brauer. A widely published poet, author, and former Dean…
“But in this lay my sin: that I sought pleasure, nobility, and truth not in God but in the beings He created, myself, and others.” …
Sheila Hale, Titian: His Life. London: HarperPress, 2012, xxi + 832 pp., £30/ $39.99 hardback. Sheila Hale begins the introduction of her tome on the life of Titian (Tiziano Vicellio, c.1488/90 – 1576) with the following quote from Edward Said: “Any style…
Editor’s note: This post is the fifth in a series from our “Artists in Residence,” and the second from Alfonse Borysewicz (see his first post here). Borysewicz (b. 1957) is a Brooklyn-based, American artist who, after receiving a B.A. and an…