Author: Corbin Buff
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Poetry’s Ghost: The Deep Image Elegiac
There are poems that do not speak to the mind first, but to the body. Reading them, the breath slows. The urge to interpret weakens. Images appear and pass without demanding resolution. Nothing is clarified, and yet something settles. These poems do not persuade or console … they entrain the nervous system toward stillness. They…
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The War of Art & the Creative Process
Some friends and I are working together on a new book – a selected “Reader” of my grandfather’s best writing. So I’m now rereading some of my favorite books of his. This piece has always stood out to me – it perfectly captures what Steven Pressfield calls “the war of art” – that simultaneous joy…
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The Real Reason for the Labor Shortage & Great Resignation
Currently, one of the biggest things our society and media suffer from is a lack of nuance. We can see this playing out in the current debate around the labor shortage. There are two predominant, opposing views on the labor shortage: These two views each have some truth to them, but the overall dichotomy is…