eileen chengyin chow
@chowleen.bsky.social
@chowleen most elsewhere; my old tweets reappear here at odd times. Duke prof, APSI Dir+DGS, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Shewo Institute 舍我紀念館 Director, Biographical Lit 傳記文學 publisher 周成蔭 #everynightapoem
‘Longing,’ says the poet Robert Hass, because desire is full of endless distances.’ — Often it is the distance between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing. -Rebecca Solnit, “The Blue of Distance” #everynightapoem #ofsorts
‘Longing,’ says the poet Robert Hass, because desire is full of endless distances.’ — Often it is the distance between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing. -Rebecca Solnit, “The Blue of Distance” #everynightapoem #ofsorts
August arrives in the dark we are not even asleep and it is here how can it be so late all at once -WS Merwin, Nocturne II from The Shadow of Sirius #everynightapoem
God damn Willa Cather got hands.
eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 4d ago"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)
why you gotta come at me sideways 1925?
eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 4d ago"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)
Why you gotta call me out like this?
eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 4d ago"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)
"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)
August has always felt like late Sunday afternoon.
Egads - not liking/hating/liking/entertained by/having lots to say about it - all good. But the “I haven’t seen the film but let me hold forth” is truly the dreaded “Harvard sophomore in a Core Class discussion section” move #Odyssey
Not strictly an adaptation of the Odyssey (nor of Orpheus, to which it hews more closely) - but a beautifully mythic work
eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 7mo agoOnly just managed to watch #LaChimera (Alice Rohrwacher, 2023) - and twice in a row! - still reeling at what an impossibly good film it was.
He always found himself singing “within the vernacular of the love song,” but "it’s also the relationship betw me & my country, me and my friends, me and myself, me and my god. It’s not always about me and my girl. That’s just the language I’ve gotten used to using.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/a...
Glen Hansard, Oscar-Winning Frontman of Irish Band the Frames, Dies at 56
The popular singer-songwriter won, with Markéta Irglová, an Oscar for the song “Falling Slowly” from the film “Once.”
nytimes.com
Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
stlpr.org
Not cheering for mass deportations doesn’t mean you’re a perfect person; it’s just a baseline for humanity.
If you’re cheering for mass deportations, you are a racist and also not a good human being. No matter what your justifications or other virtues are.
if on a summer's night - 雲門舞集《關不掉的耳朵》 2026 鄭宗龍 編導 wonderful to be in town for #雲門舞集 #cloudgatedance's open air performance alongside 10K Taipei denizens tonight.
The complexity and contradiction of Lu Xun's ideas remain - both fiercely leftist, and fiercely critiqued by the Party for his lack of revolutionary clarity (esp. by Mao, in his Yan'an Talks). During Occupy Central, Lu Xun's lines were seen hanging proudly on a banner in Hong Kong.
Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown": 「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」 -魯迅，故鄉 #everynightapoem
eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 2y ago“Imagine an iron house, with absolutely no windows, indestructible, with many people asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation…Would you think you are doing them a good turn [by waking them before they perish]?” “But if a few awake, you can’t say there is no hope.” Lu Xun
You asked when I was coming back: no date fixed yet In the hills of Ba the rain by night spills over autumn ponds 君問歸期未有期 巴山夜雨漲秋池 何當共剪西窗燭 卻話巴山夜雨時 For this very rainy night - a lifelong favorite, by the late Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin 李商隱 - on time, loss, and rain. #everynightapoem
I’m not saying that there isn’t value in accounts such as this one (always wonderful to share art!) but weird that obviously an automated search for “Tang Yin” landed on my shared translation of TANG dynasty post Li Shang YIN from a few years ago..without irony.
Open Art@open-art.bsky.social · 2w agoTang Yin was born on March 6, 1470, during the Ming dynasty. We just published a close reading: https://bsky.app/profile/open-art.bsky.social/post/3mr7mz7kifk2g
I just looked at their replies (I've also got a few by this account), they are very weird: Here, for example, they inform an Austrian journalist about the work of Hubert Robert just because he mentions two different people whose first names are "Hubert" and "Robert". I think "Open Art" is a bot.
Armin Wolf@arminwolf.at · last yr.Ein Appell an die Politik von ganz großen Namen der ORF-Geschichte wie Barbara Coudenhove, Fritz Orter, Hannelore Veit, Franz Kössler, Susanne Scholl, Ben Segenreich, Lorenz Gallmetzer, Christian Schüller, Robert Wiesner, Peter Huemer, Hubert Gaisbauer, Roland Machatschke, Michael Kerbler u.v.a.
I’m not saying that there isn’t value in accounts such as this one (always wonderful to share art!) but weird that obviously an automated search for “Tang Yin” landed on my shared translation of TANG dynasty post Li Shang YIN from a few years ago..without irony.
Open Art@open-art.bsky.social · 2w agoTang Yin was born on March 6, 1470, during the Ming dynasty. We just published a close reading: https://bsky.app/profile/open-art.bsky.social/post/3mr7mz7kifk2g
you know what I thought? I thought heartbreaking. Now I think heartbreaking, but also insane. Also very funny. -Louise Glück , meadowlands
Therefore / call out to him over the open water, over the bright water / with your dark song, with your grasping / unnatural song — passionate, like María Callas. Who / wouldn’t want you? -Louise Glück, “Penelope’s Song” #everynightapoem
Therefore / call out to him over the open water, over the bright water / with your dark song, with your grasping / unnatural song — passionate, like María Callas. Who / wouldn’t want you? -Louise Glück, “Penelope’s Song” #everynightapoem
