Art as Necessity: Notes on Carl Phillips “Ambition”

Triptolemus, Goddesses Demeter and Persephone a portraits from Greek money

Art as Necessity: Notes on Carl Phillips “Ambition” Sitting with Phillips’s “Ambition,” I see something like a dialogue across time and across difference. Assigned for my poetry class, the essay rises like the Gothic arches of a cathedral- each stone a study on what motivates us to create, what makes art not just appealing but […]