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The mission of Concordia University's Social Work program is to develop social work professionals who will identify and build on individual, family, and community strengths, while promoting human dignity and positive social change. In order to achieve this goal, the Social Work program strives to provide a curriculum and learning environment that is accessible to a diverse range of students who will make important and unique contributions in their service to clients, communities, and the profession at large.
Social Work is a practice-oriented discipline, and a social work degree qualifies students for a variety of entry-level positions in the human service field including mental health, gerontology, child welfare, adult and juvenile justice, and substance abuse prevention.
Students have two options in pursuing a degree in Social Work.
- The Bachelor of Arts in Social Work is the more traditional program that permits students to be involved throughout campus during their time at Concordia.
- Concordia's Bachelor of Science degree in Social Work is designed for non-traditional students, recognizing the value of relevant work experience.
Concordia's Social Work program is in candidacy for accreditation by the Council on Social Work Accreditation.
Concordia's Social Work Program prepares students:
- To become leaders who work actively towards a transformed society where everyone can lead lives of human dignity.
- For competent, ethical and self-reflective generalist social work practice.
- To draw on their spiritual beliefs to demonstrate a deep respect and honor for others and for themselves.
- To work in diverse communities.
Those successfully completing Concordia's Social Work Program will be able to:
- Analyze and influence social policy.
- Apply strategies of advocacy and social change within communities and organizations.
- Demonstrate a commitment to promoting social justice and equality for all people with regard to full participation in society.
- Employ critical thinking skills.
- Use theoretical frameworks supported by empirical evidence to understand individual development and behavior across the life span, as well as interactions among individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
- Apply entry level generalist knowledge and skills with individuals, groups, organizations, and communities.
- Identify and build on strengths in clients and their environments.
- Identify their own values as they relate to social work.
- Identify and thoughtfully address ethical dilemmas in professional settings in the context of the NASW code of ethics and their own values.
- Use supervision and consultation effectively.
- Work effectively on their own, as well as part of a team.
- Communicate effectively, orally and in writing.
- Evaluate their own practice.
- Evaluate and effectively use empirical studies.
- Describe their own spiritual development and spiritual beliefs.
- Help clients identify and utilize their own spiritual beliefs.
- Recognize the need for self-care and have a strategy for addressing work and personal stress in their own lives.
- Demonstrate an awareness of how oppression and discrimination impacts people, as well as methods for addressing discrimination at multiple levels.
- Comfortably work with clients different from themselves without discrimination.
Field experience is an integral part of Concordia's social work major. During two semesters of the senior year, students are placed in a supervised learning experience in a community agency that reflects their interests and needs.
Concordia's social work students are encouraged to participate in a wide variety of campus activities. The Social Work department sponsors the Social Work Club.


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AAMFT.org - Your professional home online has an abundant amount of information. AAMFT members have exclusive access to special sections of the AAMFT Website. These sections contain valuable information about marketing your practice, advancing your clinical skills, ethical and legal fact sheets, locating job opportunities, and much more. AAMFT.org also allows you to manage your membership from our secure Member's Only Section.
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In the beginning of April 2013, I cycled over 500 km from Rzeszów in southeastern Poland to Sighetu Marmației in northwestern Romania, crossing the Carpathian and Trans-Carpathian regions of Ukraine. This was my first cycling trip and proved an arduous learning experience, but I enjoyed the journey and am happy to have seen a part of Ukraine hitherto neglected in my extensive hitchhiking across the country.
I built the touring bicycle in Warsaw and took the train to Rzeszów to be closer to the border. Rzeszów has excellent cycling paths, which allowed me to get about 10 km out of the city and find a place to sleep. Initially I wanted to pitch a tent, but everywhere the ground was too wet from snowmelt. Eventually I found a motel, but it turned out to be closed for the Easter holidays. Its concrete patio allowed me to put up a tent, however, though I was woken throughout the night by motorists arriving and shouting What! It's closed!
Day 1 (91 km)
My route soon left the N4/E40 road for village roads. I saw very few people walking in the street, but the church parking lots were full, so I suppose everyone was at Easter Monday mass. In the afternoon the landscape changed to vast, barren, snowy fields, with some challenging uphills. At one point I was passed by a group of sport cyclists. Drivers seem used to cyclists and I never felt uncomfortable on the road.
In the late afternoon I reached Przemyśl, another city with excellent cycling lanes that proved a motivation to make it the last 17 km to the Ukrainian border. I aimed for the Medyka border crossing, the only one where pedestrians and cyclists can cross (at other Poland–Ukraine border crossings one must be inside a vehicle). Here the Polish officers had a brief argument about whether a bicycle is a car or pedestrian, but ultimately I was directed to the pedestrian walkway.
On the Ukrainian side, the officers wanted me to show any medicines or knives brought with me, but they were otherwise uninterested in my bicycle and the other expensive items it carried.
I spent the night at the hotel on the Ukrainian side, 250 UAH/25€ for a large room in a charming wooden building that had that distinctive smell of wood walls heated by a stove. The attached restaurant was the typical roadside café found across the former Soviet Union, whose bright lights and colourful decoration clash with the dour mien of the (invariably male) clientele and the unspectacular food. Still, the chicken Kiev, fried potatoes and buckwheat groats proved adequate cycling fare.
Day 2 (74 km)
From the Ukrainain border town of Shehyni, the road goes toward the major city of Lviv and is of excellent quality. About 15 km down from the border, southbound cyclists must turn right onto the H-13 road, which is of a very poor construction indeed. All in all, this is one of the worst roads I have travelled on in any country.
I didn't know what to expect on this road, but surprisingly, a lot of people live along it. I passed on this day through two large provincial towns, Sambir and Staryy Sambir, and there were plenty of villages along the road, with ornate Uniate churches. The Carpathians are not yet visible on this stretch and the cycling is not challenging.
I spent the night in Staryy Sambir. The first hotel I found was fully booked, so I ended up staying in a strange establishment next to the train station that was mainly a notary and lawyer's office, but had one hotel room (at 150 UAH/15€).
Day 3 (64 km)
Getting out of Staryy Sambir was taxing. The dirty potholed streets were full of slush and I got sprayed by every passing car. Once I had left that town, the road improved somewhat for about 20 km before returning to its delapidated state. The morning was one gradual climb up to about 400 m, and then a long descent into the Turka valley. This must be very beautiful in the summer, and even on this grey and rainy day it was fine scenery.
Turka is a small town of 10,000 people and looks poor. I stopped at a restaurant and ordered "potatoes à la Turka", which are chopped and fried with balls of spicy cream cheese.
Once out of Turka, the mountains begin in earnest, with a climb over 200 m out of the valley. I unwisely took the lesser used one of the two roads from Turka back onto the H-13, which was an hour of pushing the bike uphill on a surface that had essentially reverted to an unpaved state. Once I got back on the H-13, it went up and up with no end in sight. There was low visibility, and very little traffic. It was a snowy and utterly silent landscape with not a little beauty.
By the time it started to get dark, I was at 800 m and it was bitterly cold. I passed through a village perversely named Verkhne ('The Top' – it's not, as there is still one huge climb after it) and wanted to ask for a warm, dry place to spend the night, but the houses seemed deserted. Perhaps they are only used now as summer homes. Pressing on another couple of kilometres to the next village, Yavoriv, I asked the hospitality of the first family I saw and was graciously taken in for the night.
Day 4 (92 km)
The village of Yavoriv turned out to be the highest point of the road across the Carpathians. A few minutes after cycling out of it, one comes to a police post where identification is checked, because here the H-13 passes very close to the Polish border. This post is also located on the line between Ukraine's Lvivska and Zakarpatska oblasts.
Right after the police post, one begins a spectacular descent from 850 m to 400 m. This offered the best mountain scenery of the whole trip and is the reason why I would recommend traversing the western Ukrainian Carpathians from north to south instead of the inverse.
The road meets up with the Uzh river and follows it for the rest of the day until the city of Uzhgorod, so there was a feeling of constantly going downhill, in spite of a few minor uphills.
I had become used to very little traffic on the road, so cycling became stressful after the town of Velikyy Bereznyy when more cars started to pass, and after the town of Perechyn there were even some trucks. People drive recklessly here, so I was happy I was wearing a reflective vest.
Once in Uzhgorod, I stopped at the first lodgings I saw, Hotel Eduard, which proved a very good deal. For a mere 270 UAH I stayed in what felt like a luxury suite, with breakfast and wi-fi.
One should be careful when cycling into Uzhgorod and when walking around at night, as most of the city's manhole covers and rain grates seem to have been stolen by metal thieves.
Day 5 (67 km)
The road going straight southeast from Uzhgorod is the M06, a major international highway that is unsafe to cycle on. I therefore travelled all day on village roads. First I passed through the village of Tsyganiv, which is nestled in a pleasant valley. After bicycling along a marsh and then another small community or two, I crossed the M06 highway and then entered the first bilingual village on my route, known in Ukrainian as Kholmets and in Hungarian as Korláthelmec.
At the end of the next village, Rus'ki Komarivtsi, there was a Roma (gypsy) settlement whose inhabitants were friendly but whose streets wre home to a large amount of angry, aggressive dogs.
From here I could have gone straight and then pushed my bike along 300 m of highway shoulder until the next good village road, but in order to avoid the highway entirely, my GPS routed me along what turned out to be an unpaved gas company service road. The first stretch was gravel, but ultimately that ran out and one could barely distinguish 4WD tracks through a muddy field. Pushing my bike through all of this took two hours and by the end everything I owned was filthy. I should have just backtracked, and I know now to take GPS routing with a grain of salt.
Eventually I made it to a village, but even here the road remained unpaved, so it took longer still to reach the closest asphalt road. Along the way I passed an abandoned kolkhoz (collective farm). It was eerie how so many large buildings were left standing empty.
Once back on the asphalt road, navigation was easier and I passed through a few nice villages that made me think how similar Zakarpatska oblast and Transylvania are. At one point, I ignored my GPS's roundabout directions and chose to go along a few hundred metres of highway.
Once I turned off the highway back onto village roads, I passed a Russian Orthodox convent. The abbess allowed me to photograph only the grounds, and inside the church no photos were permitted. I must have seemed a disrespectful visitor with my dirty clothes. Such a place is worth seeing, but one should clean up a bit before going in.
By the evening, I had made it only to the town of Mukachevo. I had been here several times on hitchhiking journeys, and I really like the town. It has an enormous amount of smart cafés for a community of only 100,000 people, and the city centre has recently been renovated into a pedestrian-only zone. Decent, affordable accomodation is hard to find here and the best thing to do is just to ask people on the street until you find someone who can rent you a flat for the night. I got a nice place with wi-fi for 150 UAH.
Day 6 (96 km)
From Mukachevo, a driver or hitchhiker can just head straight south to the Romanian border crossing at Dyakove–Halmeu, but cyclists must instead go far southeast to Solotvyn–Sighetu Marmației, the only border crossing between Ukraine and Romania where those without a car can cross.
The landscape southeast of Mukachevo initially consists of rolling hills and lakes. At one point, the landscape became more vertical and the people noticeably poorer. The Austro-Hungarian feeling evaporated, and the town of Khust proved to be an utterly anonymous provincial town of the former Soviet Union. Before Khust there was a dramatic downhill, and I passed the monument at Krasno Pole, where the independent Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine was established on March 15, 1939, lasting only a single day.
After Khust I admit to losing interest in my surroundings, as I was mainly thinking about what great time I was making and how could make it to the Romanian border and the end of my journey by nightfall. But entering Solotvyno, the town on the Ukraine side of this border crossing, I was struck by the long row of newly-built, expensive-looking houses.
When approaching Solotvyno from the west, one has to keep straight on the road until after the railroad tracks in order to reach the turn leading to the centre of the town. There I came to a rickety old bridge over the Tisza River: that's the border crossing. Getting through was uneventful on both side, and then I was home.
The Carpathian and Trans-Carpathian regions are mostly stress-free except for the potholes, and for a cyclist who has had time to get into shape, the uphills are nowhere near as challenging as one might expect. However, early April was not an ideal time due to the amount of water on the road, as well as the lack of any dry place to put up a tent (I certainly didn't intend on staying in paid accommodation every night of this trip). If I could have freely scheduled this trip, I think that May–August would have been a better season.
I wish I had learned more Ukrainian before travelling here. Of all Ukrainians, the inhabitants of Lvivska oblast are the most hostile to attempts to communicate in Russian. In Zakarpatska oblast, however, people will readily speak in Russian, probably because it served as a language of inter-ethnic communication among the Ukrainians, Hungarians, Germans and other nationalities here.


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Antique ruby stained glass toothpick holder Made by Duncan Miller. Most of these were souvenir items and had names, and or places & dates engraved into the ruby flashing. This one has no engraving. Pretty serrated edge that shows this is an earlier production piece, as early as 1897. 2 1/4 " tall x 1 3/4" wide. Two ruby bands with clear center band. Some light scratching on the ruby areas. Great Condition with no Chips & no Cracks...
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Awesome shallow compote from the state series of glassware in the New Jersey or "loops and drops" pattern made by the U.S. glass company circa 1900. This vintage compote measures 4 1/2" tall and is 9" wide across the top.Would be great for fruit. Amazing condition for being over 100 years old, as there is NO damages what so ever. Lacy pattern with beaded loops and drops, and has a dropped skirt formed from the drops under the bowl area...
Here is a lovely Early american pattern glass crystal nappy or ice cream dish with two handles. Nice geometric designs and good pattern detail. This dish Was Made by the Imperial Glass Co. circa 1900-20.This Pattern Is Often Called "Star & File" By Collectors. The dish measures 3" tall plus handle height, and is 6" x 4.25" oval across the top plus handles. The condition is really nice with NO chips or cracks. A lovely crystal nappy for your EAPG collection.
This wonderful EAPG celery vase was made in 1907 by Tarentum Glass Co. It is the "Ornate star" pattern. They made an extensive table service plus cordials in this pattern. Pressed glass celery vases were popular in the Victorian era. Celery was a rarity, and the hostess would love to show off the celery in one of these loveley vases on her table. This one measures 6 1/4" tall and is in perfect condition. Some micro bubbles but this is typical. You will not be disappointed in this lovely piece.
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EAPG small pitcher by US Glass Co. in the Galloway pattern. Paneled design with small sawtooth edge at top and a lovely sunburst pattern on the bottom. Gold top decoration. Gold is somewhat worn in spots 85% good.
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Antique 1908 Early American Pattern Glass U.S. Glass Solar aka Feather Swirl No. 15116 footed candy dish measures 3 1/4" tall and has a 5 1/4" diameter.
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Very old thick glass creamer and matching open sugar bowl. Thick pressed star bottom, with wheel cutting of floral and leaves on both sides. Sugar is perfect, but creamer has a large chip. Since they are a pair, I am giving you the creamer if you purchase the sugar.
A complete set of delightful EAPG berry bowls stamped NuCut. These were made by Imperial Glass Co in the very early 20th century. Master berry bowl measures 8" diameter and 3 1/2" deep. The 6 matching small bowls are 1 7/8" tall x 4 1/2" across. Most all of the bowls have slight roughness here and there on the serrated rims but they are not chips. Not unusual in this old pres cut crystal.
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EAPG pattern called Panama or fine cut bar by Viking, made by US Glass Co in 1904. Not sure exactly what kind of bowl this is. it may be an open sugar or a ferner too. Measures just over 3" tall and is in perfect condition. A very lovely early piece by US Glass.
ADVERTISING TOOTH PICK HOLDER "FRANK C.CROKE FURNITURE CO." CONVERTIBLE PATTERN GLASS: Turn it one way and it's a toothpick holder/match holder the other, and its a vase. This antique toothpick holder / match safe was made by U.S. Glass Co. around 1911 when Frank Croke opened his furniture Company in Sacramento. At first I thought it was a double egg cup. The EAPG pattern is called "Minnesota". Embossed inside the toothpick holder is Frank C. Croke Furniture Company. Excellent condition...
Wonderful Victorian early American pattern glass cruet in the Cut Log pattern which was produced by Bryce Higbee & Co circa 1890. It is a beautiful Cruet for oil or vinegar. A rare find it comes complete with it's original stopper. The pattern "Cut Log" had the original manufacturers name of "Ethol" and is also known as Cat's Eye and Block. It measures just under 6" tall, including the stopper, and about 3" in diameter.In excellent condition with no damages...


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Sherman Stein's motivation for writing this book grew out of a course on the history of calculus for undergraduates he taught for several years. Before that, like most of us, he didn't know where Archimedes' reputation as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time had come from - and now he wants us to know too.
First the executive summary: read these excellent books, and make sure all your friends and relations and bright pupils (if you are a teacher) or teachers (if a bright pupil) do so too. Mathematical Vistas (MV) is the sequel to the same authors' earlier Mathematical Reflections (MR). Each book is a series of explorations of mathematical topics, informed by a definite idea of what mathematics is, and how it should be taught.
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Ronald Hunt
Ronald Dean Hunt, of 6348 N.C. 130 East Fairmont, passed away Dec. 20, 2012, in Asheville.
The funeral will be 11 a.m. Monday at FairPoint Freewill Baptist Church, the Revs. Charles Cummings and Gary Deese officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
He was born June 11, 1967, in Robeson County. He was the son of the late Archie Dale Hunt and Cleo Dessie (Linda) Hunt.
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He was the husband of the late Penny Lou Williamson Nance and the son of the late John and Gatsy Victoria Nance.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Donald Nance and Lewis Nance.
Nance was a deacon at Cerro Gordo Baptist Church, a charter member of the Cerro Gordo Fire Department and a retired member of the Cerro Gordo Fire and Rescue. He was a retired inspector with the N.C. Department of Motor Vehicles, after 32 years of service. He was a retired farmer and a member of the Chadbourn Masonic Lodge.
He is survived by two daughters, Kay N. Honeycutt (Johnny) of Chadbourn and Teresa N. Young (Keith) of Lumberton; a son, Greg Nance (Brenda Spires) of Cerro Gordo; two sisters, Lois N. Green and Jacqueline N. Heflin, both of Cerro Gordo; two brothers, Bobby Nance of Florence, S.C., and Douglas Nance of Cerro Gordo; four grandchildren, Wade Williamson, Darryl Nance, Amanda "Mandy" Pierce and Travis Britt; and four great-grandchildren, Joshua Williamson, Courtney Williamson, Haven Nance and Cole Nance.
The family will receive friends 7 to 9 p.m. today at Worthington Funeral Home in Chadbourn.
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Micheal Jerome Cooper, 54, of Brooklyn, died Dec. 16, 2012, in Brooklyn.
The funeral was held on Friday at Union Missionary Baptist Church. Interment was held in Pinelawn Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife, Wanda Cooper of New York; his mother, Margie Cooper of Lumberton; a sister, Deborah Mason; a brother, Danny Cooper of New York; two aunts, Mary " Al" McDowell and Katie Copeland; and a uncle, Cleveland "Icky" McDowell, all of Lumberton.
McMillan Funeral Home in Lumberton.
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Wilma Krasnodemski
Wilma Fran Krasnodemski, 79, of 150 Path Road, died Dec. 21, 2012, at her home.
She is survived by a brother, Donald Kemmett of Cardwell, Mo.; three sisters, Fonda Johnson of Cardwell, Dorothy Thurman of Georgia, and Maida Sullivan of Pine Bluffar; and a godchild, Christa Locklear.
Charles Ivey
Charles Ivey, 71, of Orrum, died Dec. 21, 2012, at Woodhaven Nursing Center in Lumberton.
The funeral will be 11 a.m. Monday at Floyd Memorial Chapel. Burial will follow in Ward's Cemetery in Orrum.
Ivey is survived by his wife, Ann Ivey of the home; two sons, Charles Wayne Ivey of the home and Jonathan Michael Ivey of Monroe; a brother, Bob Ivey of Orrum; a sister, Phyllis Eisle of Fairmont; three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
The visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m. today at Floyd Mortuary & Crematory Inc., and other times at the home of Louise McLean, 13496 N.C. 72 East, Lumberton.
Louraine Burney
Louraine Burney, 79, of Lumberton, died Dec. 22, 2012, at West Bladen Assisted Living in Bladenboro.
A graveside service will be 11 a.m. Monday at Mount Mariah Church Cemetery in Maxton.
She is survived by her son, James Lawrence Burney; four daughters, Julie Ann Council, Linda Carneal, Betty Bryant and Eleanor Monroe; two brothers, J.P. McLamb and William Frank McLamb; three sisters, Gritha, Alice and Ann; 14 grandchildren; and 24 great-grandchildren.
The visitation will be from 3 to 5 p.m. today at Bladen-Gaskins Funeral Home.
Gloris Clark
Gloris Clark, 74, of 31 Greely Road, died Dec. 21, 2012, at Southeastern Regional Medical Center.
The funeral will be 11 a.m. Monday at Thompson's Funeral Home, the Revs. Dr. kenneth Locklear and Bill James Locklear officiating.
She is survived by her daughter, Debbie Clark Locklear of Maxton; two sons, Harvey Bryant of Red Springs and Bruce Bryant of Lumberton; three sisters, Sara Ruth Taylor and Daisy Locklear, both of Lumberton, and Hattie Steen of Rowland; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
The visitation will be 10 a.m. Monday at Thompson's Funeral Home.


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Sunday, May 15, 2011
Come In
Comic book artists, whether through willful ignorance or coincidental lack of education, often come close to making outsider art. Whether it's a young Jack Kirby gaining his chops by copying EC Segar and Hal Foster panels onto butcher paper or today's young cartoonists gaining theirs by copying Kirby, comics mainly feed on themselves in order to grow. Theories and practices from outside the medium's century of history and back catalogue of works-in-print are surprisingly rare -- so much so that artists who come to comics informed by a larger view of the arts often look like outsider artists themselves from within the microcosm of the medium. There's a point to be made about the symbiotic relationship between comics' shunning of the wider spectrum of artistic culture and the way the "real world" shuns comics right back (oh snap, I just made it!), but for the moment let's simply take a look at one of those "outsider comics" in which art and the world are more than 6x10 grids and back issues.
Dino Buzzati begins his proto-graphic novel Poem Strip with a paragraph acknowledging the debts owed by individual pages to a constellation of non-cartoonists -- Salvador Dali, F.W. Murnau, German medical scientist Otto Prokop, New York sleaze-porn king Irving Klaw -- a litany of names to be not only brought into comics, but which comics are to be brought into contact with. From the outset, Buzzati is not looking to slum it in the pulpy atmosphere of the comics medium, but to use the form to create something that could stand alongside his acclaimed novels and poetry. It's anyone's guess as to whether Buzzati came to Poem Strip (Poema a Fumetti, or "Poem in Comics" in its original Italian, a more illuminating if rather less catchy title) with the goal of elevating or expanding the form. But in 1969 comics were such that simply entering the medium with a wider selection of cultural precepts than was found in John Romita's swipe file could hardly help but create something that aimed at bigger and more rarefied goals than most everything else. It's clear from the first page, which throws the usual solid-packed, architectural look of the gridded page right out the window for a loose and free-flowing method of sequencing, words and pictures placed on the page in delicate complement to one another rather than billeted between the steel rods of panel borders.
It's a bit shocking for the longtime comics reader to see the form broken out of its byzantine pattern of tiers and word balloons and captions and gutterspaces. Buzzati's comics just read, the images and words often juxtaposed rather than fused and overlapping. The eye is focused on one thing at a time, a line of text and then an image and then a balloon, with comics' illusion of motion and life imparted by Buzzati's vivid imagery and wide-open approach to sequence rather than the usual blares of simultaneous prose and illustration. Gridded pages do appear, but rarely. When they do it's often to animate something, presenting a quick, loose motion capture before rolling back out into the book's regularized rhythm of two images to a spread, one per page. Especially with Buzzati's preference for captions over word balloons, it's almost too easy to look at the book and declare "that's not comics!" It certainly doesn't look like much else. But it's got the rich flow and ebb of comics, the spontaneity and life of still images in tight narrative sequence, pushed along by bridges of words; it just looks at the medium differently than any more "native" artists have. This is comics from somewhere other than comics, used because of the advantages the medium offers rather than as a default.
Buzzati's art is perfect for the way it's arranged. While most comics artists falter during longer sequences of full-page panels, Buzzati's single images are full of design sense, spreading out eagerly to meet the edges of the pages, vivid canvases that earn the total focus they invite. Bold, simple shapes, sensuously curved or jagged and abrupt, are layered with luminous pastel colors, so thickly saturated in flat chartreuses and periwinkles that they recall linoleum cuts more than comic book-style flat color. The markmaking is similarly refined, cable-wire tangles of thick black line giving way to gentle sprays of Art Nouveau dot screens. The splash pages never feel over-worked or barren: Buzzati understood how to compose pictures as well as comics pages, and the balance between dynamic sequencing and arresting single visuals is maintained from beginning to end.
The effect of some panels -- especially those in which the Aubrey Beardsley pointillism is brought to bear on monolithic pin-up posed nudes -- has plenty to do with the look of '60s rock poster art, which brings it into close proximity to the work of American underground cartoonists like Rick Griffin and Greg Irons, who were expanding the comics form themselves across the Atlantic as Buzzati inked his masterpiece. But the psychedelia is never overpowering, the visuals never wrest control from the narrative. A strong current of Continental expressionism tempers the flowery glow of the op-art sequences, scratchy lines or unforgiving edifices providing a concrete counterpoint to the liminal extravagances of the more hallucinogenic passages. Each image, no matter how oblique, is in thrall to the point Buzzati uses it to make: frequently devastating visual counterpoints to the haunting, metaphysical lances thrown by the text.
That text, then (expertly translated by Marina Harss), is a mod restatement of the myth of Orpheus that digresses into an extended "Explanation of the Afterlife" as well as several lyric suites on various states of being. It's a decidedly '60s narrative setup, but any hints of overweening, "Jesus Christ Superstar" triteness are brushed away by the complex, elliptical prose Buzzati wraps his pop art in. This really is a poem strip, with the narration only sketching out the literalities of scenes in broad strokes, rolling out thunderous proclamations and evocative wordplay the rest of the time. Buzzati's poetry is very much behind the times his pictures so perfectly evoke; he is basically a poet in the high Modernist style of Tristan Tzara or T.S. Eliot, spinning litanies of vivid imagery and lyrical juxtapositions out of single, overarching abstract concepts. Death is the moment "when strange noises come from ancient deserted rooms, when the autumnal sorcerers trail their long dark shadows through the gardens of joy, when marching toward certain victory the soldiers sing"; night is "the far-off bell, the far-off voice calling out over the rooftops, the howling dogs in the vast countryside beneath the glow of the moon".
It's beautiful writing, and an atypical, highly successful counterpart to the type of imagery Buzzati pairs it with. More than that, it's not the easiest kind of writing to make work in comics, where the image-making is usually left entirely to the art, but Buzzati is sensitive enough to the medium's demands that it comes off without a hitch. Sometimes the words' imagery is given a direct illustrated counterpart, others a more abstract conceptual mirror, but never do the words and pictures cease to interact with one another, and never do those interactions feel unnatural or forced. It's comics broken out of the idea that every line of text must have a direct pictorial answer, comics that get expansive with both the art and the writing at different times in different ways rather than moving in a constant lockstep. The result is something that imports the power of written poetry and wordless fine art into comics while retaining the power-in-simultaneity of the medium itself.
The plot is no less elegantly handled. It's another re-telling of a story everyone knows, and Buzzati treats the specifics (musician loses girl to death, regains her in the underworld, loses her again at the border between his world and hers) more as forgone conclusions than dramatic flashpoints. The real pathos and conceptual meat comes when Buzzati uses the story's ancient tropes to explore his own ideas. The guitar-strumming hero's passage from life into afterlife occasions an extended, meditation on death, the "gift of a wise God", without which the world holds no mystery or sense of urgency and importance. Death, Buzzati tells us -- via the empty jacket who serves as the infernal realms' "guardian demon", is the only reason for love, the thing that pushes us into feelings so monumental that we perpetuate our species in defiance of it. Love is "the ultimate bliss, but never joyful, never, for it would be nothing without the knowledge deep down that one day all this would end".
It's easy to suspect that Buzzati was writing about more than abstract concepts: Poem Strip was his last major work, and within three years of its release he would pass away after a long battle with cancer. There is a profound sense of urgency to Buzzati's carefully weighted words and slashing brush lines, something greater and more powerful than the monthly deadlines that pushed the ink from superhero artists' pens. In context the book's end, in which the rescued maiden holds her lover back from returning to life, telling him "You know it's pointless... let's say goodbye instead, a real goodbye," is absolutely heartbreaking. The Orpheus story holds the most power for the young and young at heart, those with the fullest conviction that death is worth wresting even the already dead from. There is a tragic grandeur to seeing it retold with such beauty by a dying man, to seeing it bent toward an acceptance rather than defiance of the ultimate end.
Like so many of the "mature" comics that would follow it, Poem Strip is a refutation of a heroic narrative that everyone's seen innumerable times before. Today, that structure itself has become another cliche. Buzzati got there before most of the others, and that's rather impressive in and of itself; but what makes this comic really worth remembering is the poetic touch with which it treats the medium, the way the potentials it uncovers for comics work against its sense of futility. Buzzati didn't lived to see comics' future, and it's anyone's guess how much more interested in it than any other artistic developments he would have been.
But he was building it.
7 comments:
- Jah Nem said...
- May 15, 2011 at 5:00 PM
- Cy Mathews said...
Great review. I'm a big fan of Buzzati's heavily illustrated childrens' book The Bears' Famous Invasion of Italy, and have always meant to get a hold of Poem Strip.
This line - "It's comics broken out of the idea that every line of text must have a direct pictorial answer" - reminds me of Rick Veitch's Can't Get No, where the text has little (direct) connection to the visual narrative, like a poem superimposed upon the 'action.' It's a weird and somewhat jarring technique. - May 15, 2011 at 5:24 PM
- Cy Mathews said...
By the way, have you read Umberto Eco's novel The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana? It's a kind of memoir-via-comics, a fascination journey through pre-war/WW2 Italian comic/picture book culture (amongst other things). Might give an idea of the popular graphic culture Buzzati had around him.
- May 15, 2011 at 5:30 PM
- Matt Seneca said...
Can't Get No, now we're talking! That's a pretty cool comic -- still a lot closer to the traditional way of the medium, but yeah, the text does meander a lot closer to straight poetry than most comics ever get. Also: Chris Ware's "I Guess", an early strip that juxtaposes a hilariously downbeat monologue about childhood over Golden Age-style superhero panel continuity.
and yeah, Queen Loana is totally awesome. I was actually poking around to see how influenced Eco might have been by Buzzati, but I couldn't really find anything. I bet he must have read Poem Strip at some point though.... - May 15, 2011 at 5:37 PM
that first panel made my eyes go funny!
- May 16, 2011 at 3:13 PM
- rich tommaso said...
One of the most interesting hand-lettering jobs I ever had. A very unusual and interesting comic book.
- May 17, 2011 at 6:00 AM
- Matt Seneca said...
You did a completely amazing job on it by the way, Rich. I can't believe I forgot to mention that in the review....
- May 17, 2011 at 11:15 AM


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Cyrillic Typewriter and Typewriter Collecting
Recently on Arlington Freecycle I received an old typewriter. The internet informs me that it is a post-World War II typewriter produced in 1957. It is a Cyrillic typewriter made my Royal and is as heavy as lead (I think it weighs 28 pounds). It works although it needs a new ribbon and they keys are a little sticky.
It does need some aesthetic help, it looks like someone taped something to it and then put it in the attic where the glue could harden and become hard. I Googled typewriters to find out the best way to clean them and came across The Classic Typewriter Page by Richard Polt. He has tons of information on typewriters and pictures of some incredibly amazing ones. Apparently Cyrillic typewriters are hard to come by on this side of the Atlantic. However, he did not have information on how to remove glue from a typewriter. I ended up writing to him and he immediately wrote back. His advice was to use Goo Gone or Soft Scrub.
Now I have a 28 pound typewriter and I'm not sure what to do with it. It takes up a lot of space. I have identified it as a Royal Model FP manual typewriter and apparently it came in a variety of fun colors, although mine is the standard boring gray. I would be interested to know which Eastern European country this alphabet matches. I wonder how most typewriter collectors display their collections? I guess they live in a house rather than a tiny Alexandria apartment…The Model FP was the favored typewriter of Herb Caen, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle who called it the The Loyal Royal.


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Tuesday's Pitching Matchup:
Jeff Karstens 2-10, 4.98 ERA
Ryan Dempster 12-8, 3.42 ERA
Karstens missed his last start due to arm fatigue, Daniel McCutchen took his start in the rotation. Karstens has passed his total innings pitched from 2009 already so the Pirates will be careful with Jeff the remainder of the season. Karstens surrendered seven runs off 11 hits against the Mets his last trip to the mound on 8/20. In his last three starts, Jeff is 0-3 with a 8.40 ERA.
Dempster has a 1.66 ERA in his last 21.2 innings pitched. Ryan won against the Nationals his last time out, pitching seven scoreless innings, gave up just two hits and struck out eight. Dempster is having a great month of August with a stingy 1.31 ERA.
Pirates Lineup:
Andrew McCutchen CF
Jose Tabata LF
Neil Walker 2B
Garrett Jones 1B
Pedro Alvarez 3B
Ryan Doumit RF
Ronny Cedeno SS
Chris Synder C
Jeff Karstens P
Cubs Lineup:
Blake Dewitt 2B
Starlin Castro SS
Marlon Byrd CF
Aramis Ramirez 3B
Xavier Nady 1B
Alfonso Soriano LF
Tyler Colvin RF
Koyie Hill C
Ryan Dempster P
- As of right now, Charlie Morton will remain in the Pirates lineup –atleast until his start on Saturday.
One of the primary issues in Morton's troublesome 3 1/3-innings return from the Minors on Sunday was the degree to which the righty relied on his offspeed pitches. For a guy who has overpowering ability, Morton's dependency on his secondary pitches has been baffling.
Though Morton's problems have been much more pronounced this year, his use of his fastball has actually decreased in each of the past two seasons. In 2008, 64.6 percent of Morton's pitches were two-seam or four-seam fastballs. In 2009, that percentage dipped to 56.7. This year, it's at 52.2 percent, meaning that Morton is going away from the fastball on about every other pitch he throws.
Morton's lack of aggressiveness on Sunday was mostly his own doing. He shook off catcher Ryan Doumit repeatedly early on, before Doumit began playing into Morton's less aggressive game plan later in the outing.
(Bucs want Morton to be more agressive- Pirates.com)
"As a catcher, it's tough when you're being shaken off by the pitcher," Russell said. "You're trying to get what he wants to do because you don't want him to shake, but you also know what you want to do, so it's a battle.
"[Doumit] kind of wanted Charlie to throw a game and see what he's doing, and let him kind of take the game and see where he took it. Now we have a pretty good indication of what we need to focus on, not only with his pitches, but also with the mental part."


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Christmas festivities vary widely around the world, and are widely a steaming crock of boring shit. Ooh, Swedish girls wear a crown of candles the night before Chistmas? Please tell me more about this scintillating national cust-snzzzZZZZZZZZZ.
In the Peruvian Andes, folks know how to celebrate the season right. What they do is, they put on a colorful ski-mask, dress up like Mad Max mountain bikers, tie a dead eagle to their heads, and get drunk and dance for about a week straight. Then, come Christmas morning, they all gather together in the middle of town and beat the baby bejesus out of each other. Now we're talking, right?
The festival is called Takanakuy and its equal parts sporting event, indigenous display of hypermasculine defiance in the face of all the lilywhite metropolitan sissies in Lima, and makeshift judicial system. The province of Chumbivilcas, where Takanakuy takes place, has about three cops total and is a stomach-wrecking 10-hour drive through the mountains to the nearest courthouse. So if you've got a beef with a neighbor or someone's taken your girl or sheep, you don't go crying about it to some judge. You bury it away until Christmas, then get yourself all beered up and exact some Andean justice with your fists and feet. Guys, girls, little kids, old drunk men in high-waisted pants; everybody in town fights at Takanakuy.
This year we decided to forego the annual family snoozefest and head into the mountains of Peru to test our mettle against the some of the hardiest people from one of the harshest environments in the Americas. We hope you like it, since it broke our mothers' hearts.
Read more: Christmas in the Andes
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Like a War of the Gods, the Asia final of the Gran Turismo®5 Asia Online Tournament 2012 – Super GT Cup was a clash among champions, and at the end of it all, one would be crowned victorious.
The battlefield began since April where qualifiers from the home ground of Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia were held online. Hundreds pit their skills to stand out from the crowd. From there, the top six contenders from the above countries stepped forward in the Regional Final for the honour to represent in the Final, where the best of the best would meet.
On 10 June 2012, the ultimate battleground took place in Malaysia, right in the heart of Super GT Sepang Circuit. In this Asian Championship, the finalists competed over the Suzuka Circuit using any of the designated cars – MOTUL AUTHECH GT-R '08, Calsonic IMPUL GT-R '08 or the YellowHat YMS TOMICA GT-R '08. Priority of choice was given according to the top scorers of a time attack race, which also gave the finalists a warm up before the final race.
The Final was a simple race of speed, but one where the racer has to factor in precision, judgment and risk. The first speed demon to complete the course would be crowned the Ultimate Champion.
The Finalists did not turn up alone. Some were flanked by supporters and family members and the enthusiastic GT Community from Malaysia. They were there to witness the race first-hand
Tension mounted when the race began. All eyes were on the screen, watching every decision and turn made by the finalists. In the end, where all the smoke and dust had settled, the results were clear and decisive.
Mr Andika Rama Maulana, representing Indonesia inched his way to victory by 0.231 seconds against Mr Lee Seonhong of Korea. Hong Kong's Mr Chung Ho Hin came in third, followed by Thailand's Mr Auttawit Skuntantimeta. The home country's representative Mr Lee Jian Yong came in fifth, ahead of Singapore's Mr Charles Theseira.
The crowd cheered for everyone!
Mr Yasuda-san, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Asia shook the hands of the finalists and congratulated the Ultimate Champion, flanked by Racing Queen Chinatsu Minami. Mr Andika of Indonesia took home the Asian Champion Trophy, and secured his chance to fly to Japan in September for the Tokyo Game Show 2012, all expenses paid. While he's there, he will attend Polyphony Digital Studio Tour followed by a prestigious invitation to a hearty dinner with Mr Kazunori Yamauchi, Gran Turismo series producer.
For our PlayStation Finalists, the friendly tournament was also a time for them make more friends!
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The Final of the GT5 Asia Online Tournament 2012 – Super GT Cup was not the only spectacle at the event.
A special Driver's Round of the GT5 Competition was held, wherein 3 Super GT Drivers took the stage. They were Mr Daisuke ITO from TOYOTA (#6 LEXUS TEAM LE MANS), Mr Yuki Nakayama from HONDA (#32 EPSON HSV NAKAJIMA RACING) and Mr JP de Olliveila from NISSAN (#12 CALSONIC GT-R TEAM IMPUL).
It's was our pleasure to have Mr. Daisuke ITO placed in 3rd in GT500 delivering a talk show on stage. It was heartening and a privilege to be able to watch these professionals in action.
The SUPER GT INTERNATIONAL SERIES MALAYSIA race, Round 3 of the 2012 AUTOBACS SUPER GT was one of the highlights at the event. It was a hellish endurance race, held at the Sepang International Circuit where the round comprises 54 laps of 5.543 km each!
In the GT500 class, Mr Takashi and Carlo Van Dam who drove the Weider HSV-010 won the race.
In the GT300 class, Mr Masami Kageyama and Tomonobu Fujii who drove the HANKOOK PORSCHE held the lead in the race the whole, except when they had to make a stopover at the pit stop.
Both winners were pole-starters during the race and managed to keep that advantage.
It was a treat for the 48,000-strong spectators. I certainly wish I was there!