All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me,
Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul. 4 July 2007 http://www.casavaria.com/books/cava/012-whitman/miracles.html As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water... 3 July 2007 http://www.casavaria.com/books/cava/012-whitman/road.html Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.

The earth, that is sufficient,
I do not want the constellations any nearer... 3 July 2007 http://www.casavaria.com/books/cava/012-whitman/salut.html I hear fierce French liberty songs,
I hear of the Italian boat-sculler the musical recitative of old poems,
I hear the locusts in Syria as they strike the grain and grass with
the showers of their terrible clouds,
I hear the Coptic refrain toward sundown, pensively falling on the
breast of the black venerable vast mother the Nile,
I hear the chirp of the Mexican muleteer, and the bells of the mule,
I hear the Arab muezzin calling from the top of the mosque,
I hear the Christian priests at the altars of their churches... 2 July 2007 http://www.casavaria.com/lit/jr/ptarmigan/lydia.html I dreamt she was here
for me alone
I dreamt she had red pollen in her soul
and descended upon me
with careful
lascivious beauty... 2 July 2007 http://www.casavaria.com/lit/jr/ptarmigan/pieta.html A human love is not a fetish, not a ritual item nor a stone tablet to be referenced and stored in secret jeweled casings. It may at times seem so, even seem appropriate to paint it as such. It may be treated that way openly or in secret, but not without its true form being put at great risk of disintegration and disappearance. 2 July 2007 http://www.casavaria.com/books/cava/011-zarathustra/intro.html One of the truly central and problematic terms Nietzsche puts forth in the spiritual meditations of Zarathustra is the concept of the so-called "Übermensch", translated alternately as the superman or the overman. Traditionally seen as a being that is superior to or "beyond" the ordinary human being, it is likely more an extension of what we aspire to achieve, within the realm of human virtues and complications. 1 July 2007 http://www.casavaria.com/books/cava/011-zarathustra/index.html Thus Spake Zarathustra is one of the great works of modern philosophy, and an indispensable precursor to all major trends in 20th century Western thought. The book is controversial in part because the fictional prophet who serves as its protagonist, and who professes a nearly mystical version of Nietzsche's philosophy, does so in a way that dismantles many important aspects of the Western tradition. 30 June 2007 http://www.casavaria.com/books/cava/014-jaguar/lluvia.html pensaba hablarte de la lluvia
y cómo resbalaba en la voz de una soprano
exquisita insólita tan selvática como astral
pero ahora veo que ha dejado de llover
y ese sonido que trae calma y bienestar
que fertiliza y hace futuro
se transfirió al entorno de tus parpadeos
tu silencio... 30 June 2007 http://www.casavaria.com/lit/elindulnek/index.html Elindulnék is Casavaria's new blog project, managed as a personal creation and exploration by Casavaria's editor-in-chief and functioning as a meeting point for books and readers, excerpts and experiments by people interested in Casavaria's overall style and mission and in Joseph's intimate, personal way of writing, often taking the everyday and crafting into an abstract exploration of the human experience, or just painting the world with his own brush. 29 June 2007 http://www.casavaria.com/books/cava/014-jaguar/index.html entre la semilla de todas
las dudas la mueca tirana 
del reloj y un deseante 
relumbre de aproximaciones
la vida existe 
reluce sembrándose brotando 
espirales en paralelo
una fauna tremebunda 
inocente puzzle de fuerzas
hermosamente incompatibles... 29 June 2007 http://www.casavaria.com/lit/jr/ptarmigan/lifegivers.html we are wrong to want to 'get beyond' or even 'smooth over' the imperfect, because that separation between one thing and another, even between ideal and actual, is what gives the constellation of difference in which we all come to be, in which all human relations situate both the core and the outer limits of their reason for being... 20 June 2007 http://www.casavaria.com/lit/jr/ptarmigan/wanton.html wanton sense of coming to be
beyond the reach of any particular condition
tradition or absence of appetite
fulfilling a long-term mission
to break down barriers & to be
found in the knowing
to be something more than the known self. 20 June 2007 http://www.casavaria.com/sentido/global/econ/sust/07-0606-ug99.html A new strain of wheat-eating stem rust has emerged as a threat to the global food supply. Ug99, named for the place and date of its discovery, Uganda, 1999, takes advantage of weaknesses in wheat varieties which were specifically developed to be resistant to stem rust, and which have been so for nearly 4 decades. 20 June 2007 http://www.casavaria.com/sentido/environment/2007/07-0430-reversible.htm Two major reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) earlier this year made front-page headlines across the world, warning of dire consequences of global climate change. Now, the new report, due to be released this week, plots a course to combat and reverse the climate phenomenon. 20 June 2007 http://www.casavaria.com/books/cava/009-douglass/index.html Frederick Douglass is one of the great figures of mid-19th century American letters, culture and politics. Born a slave, his learning and his moral authority inspired popular adhesion to the abolitionist movement, and his autobiography became the leading reference for understanding the struggles of southern slaves against a form of oppression mostly unknown in the northern states. 20 June 2007 http://www.casavaria.com/art/books.html Several of the artists who participate in Casavaria's online galleries also work as book illustration and cover designers. Their artwork has come to represent the color and charisma of titles produced by Linkgua Ediciones and by Casavaria Publishing, enhancing the overall quality of works by both new and classical authors. 20 June 2007 http://www.casavaria.com/sentido/video/index.html Casavaria's news and culture publication, Sentido, now hosts an archive of online video, representing events in the news, historical and documentary footage and information about conflicts and crises around the world. Each video also links to related reports within Sentido's news pages... 20 June 2007 http://www.casavaria.com/sentido/culture/esp/06-0519-marti.html ELOGIO A LA MUERTE DE EMERSON, ESCRITO POR JOSÉ MARTÍ, Y PUBLICADO EL 19 DE MAYO, 1882: Tiembla a veces la pluma, como sacerdote capaz de pecado que se cree indigno de cumplir su ministerio... Fue un hombre que se halló vivo, se sacudió de los hombros todos esos mantos y de los ojos todas esas vendas, que los tiempos pasados echan sobre los hombres, y vivió faz a faz con la naturaleza... 29 May 2006 http://www.casavaria.com/art/marco/index.html Marco es un pintor y artista gráfico mexicano, con un talento por plasmar colores ricos y vivos y una textura de veras evocativa. Su obra ha sido expuesta en ambos lados del océano Atlántico, y figura en las portadas y en el interior de muchos libros... 29 May 2006 http://www.casavaria.com/sentido/environment/epi/esp/2006/esp060528-cenit.htm El 'cenit del petróleo' se define como el momento en que la producción petrolífera deja de ampliarse y comienza su inevitable reducción a largo plazo. Debido a la demanda rápidamente creciente, esta reducción traerá precios más altos. Por la creciente demanda, hasta si sólo se frene o allane la producción, la resultante bajada del abastecimiento hará que suban los precios, aunque más despacio. 28 May 2006 http://www.casavaria.com/art/jinhee/index.html This collection, which showed in London from 7 through 28 April 2006, is an experiment in intimacy, with a view to understanding and expressing the subtle and very particular, yet universal traits that permeate human relations and communication... 28 May 2006 http://www.casavaria.com/lit/aes/writing.htm Language is that point of contact in the abstract, that plane where the intellectual life within us is enabled to assert itself as part of the overall experience of living. Language is that plane where the individual self is allowed repeated attempts at manifestation. What takes place in the process of writing, in the spilling of ink or the posting of digital characters, the slip toward defining a landscape, however brief, is the sanctification of an individual, and by extension of the human condition as such... 27 May 2006 http://www.casavaria.com/sentido/usnews/politics/2006/06-0525-7lies.htm The identity of groups, or for that matter of individuals is not implacable, nor is it absolutely relative. It follows the vicissitudes of the human health and mind, and requires sincere dialogue with the other in order to reach its fullest potential. The push to establish a single national language can only be sustained on the basis of a number of false premises, all of which work against the interests of both a democratic society and American tradition itself. 25 May 2006 http://www.casavaria.com/silva/2-4-immanence.htm ARCHIVE FEATURE: Writing on the existential problem of immanence, whether there is essence, something inherent and intractable, something guaranteed or inborn. The question is a question of 'ifs', of whether or not what is carried within a word, an idea, a mind or a body, is somehow a factor of universal integrity, or whether it is an accident of circumstance... 25 May 2006 http://www.casavaria.com/lit/atelier.htm Does an event find its impetus in any preceding occurrence? What is the precise motivation one employs to confront the everyday? Is there something which drives us to develop the formal shape of our circumstances, or our perception of them? Often times what makes the narrative of one event so stirring, poignant and captivating is that it approaches occurrence through the lens of seemingly unconnected realities... 24 May 2006 http://www.casavaria.com/silva/2-2-brine.htm ARCHIVE FEATURE: Poetry on the subject of appetite and longing, the balance of what exists and what is desired, an hommage to the poet Pablo Neruda, featured poets of Chile and analysis of the work of Jorge Teillier, poet of limits and the hearth... 22 May 2006 http://www.casavaria.com/sentido/culture/2006/06-0518-davinci.htm Dan Brown's bestselling novel is not, contrary to popular opinion, primarily about conspiracy theories. Conspiracies do figure in the plot, as they have in his other books, but they are too simplistic an explanation for the popularity of the book, too much a device to explain what in the substance of the book attracts special attention among readers. 18 May 2006