Liana Paré a restless teenage artist, she is always wondering in & out of her mind to discover inspiration in people & in nature. (Especially the 'typical' forms of ugliness). Paré sees with the eyes of a giggling child in her visual arts & poetry. The painter & poet & endless philosopher is an Art

Candy, Charming, Complex, Experimental, Open-ended, Severe, Tense, Wise assy

Thom Jones is an American writer, primarily of short stories. He was raised in Aurora, Illinois and attended the University of Hawaii where he played catcher on the baseball team. He later attended the University of Washington, where he graduated in 1970, and the University of Iowa where he received

Dark, Intense, Lush, Manic, Profane, Psychological, Sublime, Tense

Kipling was never one to pity the vanquished or cry for the victim. He preferred to praise the victors, fortify the reign of imperialism, legitimize and rationalize colonial order. Having lived in both Bombay and England, Kipling came to see English civilization as the only hope for a dirty, barbaric

Dark, Dense, Eclectic, Masculine, Modernist literature, Modernist poetry, Tense

The man who would be Papa began his life in 1899 as Ernest Miller Hemingway, born in his grandfather's house in Chicago, Illinois. His father raised him to be a sporting man, a man equipped to survive in nature, with a love of hunting, fishing, and adventure (Hemingway would cultivate this image in h

Bombast, Masculine, Modernist literature, Rough, Tense, The lost generation