tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86840488896233506732024-02-07T20:44:51.368-07:00Ghost Buffalo
Wendy Videlock
wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06615468753561356176noreply@blogger.comBlogger730125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684048889623350673.post-58398802590130567612021-07-12T13:43:00.001-06:002021-07-12T14:34:57.124-06:00Catching Up: Publications, Interview, Reviews, Teaching Gigs, Etc<p> In which I discuss the works of the late great Virginia Hamilton Adair, with thanks to Ashley Hajimirsadeghi of <b>Sundress</b> for the invitation: </p><p><a href="https://sundressblog.com/2021/04/28/lyric-essentials-wendy-videlock-reads-virginia-hamilton-adair/" target="_blank">Videlock on Adair </a><br /></p><p>Thanks to editor Tim Green of Rattle for publishing "Here in the West" back in September and "On Ceremony" back in January: </p><p><a href="https://www.rattle.com/here-in-the-west-by-wendy-videlock/" target="_blank">Here in the West, Wendy Videlock</a></p><p><a href="https://www.rattle.com/on-ceremony-by-wendy-videlock/" target="_blank">On Ceremony, Wendy Videlock </a><br /></p><p>Thanks also to Tim for interviewing me for a Rattlecast in March of this year: </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OheIJ9Gg3C8&t=669s">Videlock Rattlecast</a></p><p>My thanks to editor Rick Kempa for including "Ode to the Slow" in the anthology, <b>Deep Wild, Writing from the Backcountry: </b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://thinkjournal.org/" target="_blank">THINK, Videlock</a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks to Melissa Bailman for her inclusion of "Everybody's a Critic" in a recent issue of Light:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://lightpoetrymagazine.com/wendy-videlock/">Everybody's a Critic</a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />Thanks to Alex Pepple for publishing "In the Womb You will Begin to Learn" in the most recent issue of <b>Able Muse. </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And thanks to David Yezzi for his acceptance of two poems for an upcoming issue of <b>Hopkins Review.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'll be presenting for <b>The Critical Path: A Symposium,</b> sponsored by Western State University this weekend, with thanks to Jan Schreiber for the invitation: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIJMEH5PVUa8Zlur-LhBQ6OoEN5-rU4hO2ycvnqm7Fk8V1RwazO7HOq0z3L0dshtScIzOxGjVSdrZAGdc2zkse7REMMPJqV6Y3PKw_u8QMtVoHb-SdTm8hR-Y2ncou8RcGvNAxAzxSVvBp/s1223/sympo.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1223" data-original-width="828" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIJMEH5PVUa8Zlur-LhBQ6OoEN5-rU4hO2ycvnqm7Fk8V1RwazO7HOq0z3L0dshtScIzOxGjVSdrZAGdc2zkse7REMMPJqV6Y3PKw_u8QMtVoHb-SdTm8hR-Y2ncou8RcGvNAxAzxSVvBp/s320/sympo.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And last but not least, an upcoming festival here in western Colorado: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://60db2438797d0.site123.me/">A Confluence: for the love of learning</a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://lightpoetrymagazine.com/wendy-videlock/" target="_blank"><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p>wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06615468753561356176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684048889623350673.post-78440193914867851682021-06-24T12:10:00.006-06:002021-06-24T12:55:28.479-06:00Summer Solstice 2021 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It is good to live in the sticks. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It is also difficult to live in the sticks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As most of the country gets vaccinated and recovers from Covid, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">our stubborn red county here in western Colorado suffers disturbing </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">numbers and more deaths than ever from the ongoing pandemic. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We have less than a 30% vaccination rate, and no precautions in place. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As the drought continues and record-setting temperatures soar,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">the fires continue throughout the west. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>The river depletes. The groves</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>expire. What blooms</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>in summer is wildfire. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It is good to live in the sticks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It is also difficult to live in the sticks. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Let it be said of our kind </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">when surrounded </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">by fires</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> still they sang.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We were invited to a lovely summer solstice celebration on the Monument over</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">the weekend. Mary Hertert, Jere Friedman, and Heather Hayden, and their nine </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">beautiful gongs raised the vibration throughout the canyon and through the valley. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I couldn't help notice that as with poetry, it wasn't just about the sound,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">but the silences. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg41KdLpzeeY-XorwAqYbHJ6-HL8YtvW67sIVxg03KIV0-gSNu9fzAI0Lw76AY76weBHvRoPjMiXibNtVKAXcYXKT1wo8mjtSyXaq3XDNluEkc0vy0F_xjHJ4Poh0n9pTAHR4TMbisXI8u7/s2048/3CAA5FD4-9410-4E3F-B2C2-ACE377796E93.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg41KdLpzeeY-XorwAqYbHJ6-HL8YtvW67sIVxg03KIV0-gSNu9fzAI0Lw76AY76weBHvRoPjMiXibNtVKAXcYXKT1wo8mjtSyXaq3XDNluEkc0vy0F_xjHJ4Poh0n9pTAHR4TMbisXI8u7/s320/3CAA5FD4-9410-4E3F-B2C2-ACE377796E93.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06615468753561356176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684048889623350673.post-29844440081457669692020-07-19T17:01:00.000-06:002020-07-19T17:11:02.908-06:00Covid Times<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well, it's been a while since I've haunted the ol' Ghost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yes, we live in remarkable, evolutionary times. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And still, I find </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the brokers gonna broker, the makers gonna make, the ogres gonna ogre. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">My thanks to Rebecca Faust for soliciting a poem of mine for a feature in Women's Voices for Change. Of the poem, which first appeared in Hudson Review, she writes: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Figures of speech help a writer to communicate ideas difficult to express in words or more effectively communicated non-verbally. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Schemes tend to work through sound and rhythm to produce a visceral effect felt in the body by making language more musical, persuasive, or memorable. In contrast, tropes appeal to the intellect by adding complexity or ambiguity to otherwise simple language. Broadly speaking, both types of figures of speech help engage both the hearts </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;">and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> the minds of readers, and in a very compressed and efficient way. A poem that really drives all this home, “Figures” by Wendy Videlock, is featured this week in Poetry Sunday for Women’s Voices for Change: </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thanks also to the editors of Hudson Review, who have published another couple of my poems:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And thanks also to Hopkins Review, who have published more of my works in recent months. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And Think Journal, which published <b>The Ogre, <i>(in which the poet fixes her gaze on the many-armed social media beast)</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And to Able Muse, for publishing my memorial, (<i>O Timothy Tim)</i>, in honor of poet, Timothy Murphy in their Tribute issue</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And to Better than Starbucks, for awarding my sonnet, <i>Snag</i>, Honorable Mention in their yearly sonnet contest. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And to Juxtaprose for soliciting upcoming work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And to Light, for republishing a short piece in an upcoming issue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And to the muse, or the daemon, or the breath -- for the inspiration to put the finishing touches on my (3) new manuscripts. Stay tuned. </span><br />
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<br />wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06615468753561356176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684048889623350673.post-64673863480695530432019-10-15T10:14:00.002-06:002019-10-15T10:16:02.653-06:00Judy Grahn <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06615468753561356176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684048889623350673.post-21462876029679465792019-10-11T00:20:00.001-06:002019-11-10T23:25:29.166-07:00Fall Harvest: A Few Things in Print<br />
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Delighted to have been asked by dear friend and poet, Art Goodtimes, to do the cover art for his latest book, Living on Edge, the McRedEye Poems, available from Lithic Press:<br />
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This five-page bit of prosimetrum appears in the current issue of Think: (my first published prose), now edited by Brian Palmer. In future issues, I'll be part of their newly minted advisory board, alongside original founding editor, Christine Yurick:<br />
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Some weeks ago I was asked by Joan Digby of Cross Cultural Communications in Louisiana for permission to reprint one of my poems for a post card project. A box of lovely little broadsides on marbled paper with envelopes arrived in the mail today. This particular poem has had more requests for re-printings than I think any other I've written:<br />
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wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06615468753561356176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684048889623350673.post-40264318291749196972019-03-13T12:04:00.002-06:002019-03-13T12:18:05.430-06:00The Three-Eyed Raven and the Ghost Buffalo <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes, it's been far too long since I've updated here on the Ghost Buffalo. My gratitude to those who continue to check in, or have been noodging me to keep them posted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's been a soggy wet winter after the Colorado-wide drought from hell last year. As I write, the sky is blue, the ground is wet, and the back forty is greener than it was all last summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://hopkinsreview.jhu.edu/current-issue/ode-to-the-slow/">HOPKINS REVIEW: Wendy Videlock/Ode to the Slow</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've got a poem upcoming in Rattle, another two upcoming in the Hopkins Review, three poems soon to appear in Hudson Review, and one in Here: Poems for the planet, with an introduction by the Dali Lama. </span><br />
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#hopkinsreview #hudsonreview #rattle #herepoemsfortheplanet #wendyvidelock #coppercanyonpress #alcoholinkswendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06615468753561356176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684048889623350673.post-39990069761146305352019-01-02T15:24:00.003-07:002019-01-02T15:24:31.892-07:00To the New Year, WS Merwin<b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-j-hummingway/to-the-new-year-by-w-s-merwin-music-floating-among-the-stars-voice-mj-hummingway">To the New Year, WS Merwin</a></b><br />
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<br />wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06615468753561356176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684048889623350673.post-60635466882804154822018-11-08T14:30:00.000-07:002018-11-10T10:05:30.791-07:00Newborn foals, hats, and roles, & curiously balanced cats<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The little poem above first appeared in The New Criterion, was later reprinted in Best American Poetry, was set to music twice, was the subject of a Youtube discussion with high school kids, made its way into a dear friend's Tedx Talk, was the subject of a comprehensive review in Borderlands, appeared in RCAH Center for Poetry,and will appear in an upcoming anthology entitled Here, with an introduction by the Dalai Lama. Except for its first appearance in The New Criterion, each of these inclusions and collaborations and requests came as a complete surprise to me. The poem, or should I say, the foal, reminds me of his existence, again and again. And always just when I need to see him anew. I'm very grateful to all my editors and readers and composers for their generosity and support -- and the good works they do for the word. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>When Molly Lindberg approached me about composing a work for Bravura, in celebration of the 10<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the founding of the organization, I was, at once, deeply honored and thrilled, for I knew that these young singers could navigate any musical obstacle that I put on the page. By far the biggest challenge for me in accepting the commission would be to find the right text to set to music. After weeks of fruitless searching I was leafing through The Best American Poetry 2015, and read How you might approach a foal, of poet Wendy Videlock. The evocative poetic images can certainly be understood in their literal fashion, but I read them as a metaphor for coming of age, and seeing the world in all its newness, and innocence, and beauty through the eyes possessed by a young woman. Being the father of only boys, there is a certain mystery, idealizing even, in raising a daughter, but when I read the lines “like your mother just this morning had combed a dream into your hair”, I knew that I had found the inspiration for which I had been searching, and the actual composing took just three days.<u></u><u></u></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>The piece is in three sections, each characterized by related keys (A major, Db major, F major) and tempo changes. The piano figures that begin the work explore the outer reaches of the instrument with the chorus entering in the middle of the texture. These poetic images, for me, all relate to the growing and experiencing life process: (Lagoon = a place of safety, canoe = only moves forward when the oars are working in collaboration, part earth and part moon = what you are becoming is not yet known, etc.). The choral “ah” vocalises offer a moment to ponder the images of the text. The remainder of the images of the poem speak of the innocence of being “new to the world” and seeing it, and humanity, for all its goodness and unsullied beauty. A sentimental, even antiquated vision, to be sure, but in this occasionally challenging age, a vision that we can all wish upon our children. Perhaps poet Wendy Videlock said it best: “I know nothing about poetry except that it is good medicine for what assails us, gives meaning to what shadows us, and adds weight to what assails us. I am glad it is persistent.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">A Poet’s Sensitivity: Wendy Videlock Approaches a Foal
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">By Jeffrey P. Beck
Published in Borderlands, 2017
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<span style="color: rgb(19.803660% , 19.804220% , 19.803920%); font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-style: italic;">Jeffrey P. Beck is the recent winner of the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Award, and honorable mention
winner of the Frank O’Hara Poetry Prize. He is Dean of the Nathan Weiss Graduate College at Kean
University in Union, N.J.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>A mental game I like to play in my library with myself: Which contemporary poet would
I like to be? For imaginative intensity, maybe Jamaal May, Kim Addonizio, or Kwame Dawes.
For sheer humor, maybe Tony Hoagland, Denise Duhamel, R.S. Gwynn, or Aimee
Nezhukumatathil. For wisdom, maybe Ted Kooser, Li-Young Lee, or Lawrence Raab. For
cultural awareness and study of people, maybe Alexie, Glück, Espada, or Natalie Diaz. For
historical comprehension, maybe Pinsky, Terrance Hayes, or Chana Bloch. For verbal and social
experimentation, John Ashbery, CAConrad, or Eileen Myles. For spiritual transcendence, maybe
Mary Oliver or Mary Szybist. For formal excellence, maybe A.E. Stallings, Joshua Mehighan, or
David Yezzi. For sheer profundity, maybe D. Nurkse or Peter Balakian. But for the sensitive
turning of a line: Wendy Videlock.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes, Videlock may be less familiar than other poets on this list. But her craft is worthy.
Her delicate turning of a line is as breathtaking as it is brief. One must read the poet in action to
know it, but the knowing is immediate and startling. Videlock may be less known because she’s
published her three books (Nevertheless, The Dark Gnu, and Slingshots & Love Plums) with
Able Muse Press, a sturdy but less renowned press, under the capable leadership of Alex Pepple. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All the same, Videlock has appeared in </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Poetry, The New York Times, New Criterion</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, and other </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">good venues repeatedly, always with reputable offerings. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Her “How You Might Approach a Foal”
was published in </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">New Criterion</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, as well in as her book </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Slingshots & Love Plums</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, and made
Alexie’s selection </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of The Best American Poetry </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2015. The poem serves as exemplum of what
Videlock does best—turn a line with sensitivity to sound, tone, and imaginative lift.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Before approaching the foal, it’s worth noting that more than a few of Videlock’s poems
begin with a title that forms a subject for the body of the poem to act as predicate. In this vein we
have:
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and violets in bloom. (ll. 1-2)<span style="vertical-align: 4pt;">1
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The title’s subject is completed by the action of the short two lines, but with characteristic
suspense, irony, and surprise. The title space itself, ironically, becomes an anteroom awaiting the
surprise of the poem. As is often the case, the surprise is compressed as a concertina. The title
induces the reader to guess—who is waiting in the waiting room, under what dire or everyday
circumstance, and for what? The words, “no words,” paradoxically suggest the waiting is tense,
such that communication is impossible or inappropriate. Yet the poet, always alive to the life that
pulses while the waiting goes on, reminds the waiters that nature beckons, with the thrill of
violets, punctuated by the rhyme of room and bloom. This compressed irony and surprising image emphasized by an unexpected rhyme are part of the successful Videlock method. We see
the same trio of effects in short space in:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;"><i>The girl with Navaho hair,</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>barely there.<span style="vertical-align: 4pt;">2
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>In this one, the title pauses, in leaning-chair fashion, in equipoise between the woven hair of the
girl and what is to come next: the balance. Does the chair seem “barely there” because of the
girl’s impressive hair? Or is the girl “barely there,” distant in her dreamful state? Twelve words,
but so much in those twelve words. As Ted Kooser puts it succinctly: “I love short poems, and
Wendy Videlock is very good at writing them.”<span style="vertical-align: 4pt;">3 </span>Similarly, David J. Rothman compares Videlock
to Derek Walcott “in the richness of her verse craft. . . . but where he is a maximalist, she is a
minimalist.”<span style="vertical-align: 4pt;">4 </span>Indeed, she is a master of short forms, but as an artist interested in hybrid forms,
she also has the ability to stretch haiku-like compression into a longer poem.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As readers of Videlock may or may not know, she lives in Western Colorado, where she
teaches both painting and poetry. Her ink paintings have a dreaming quality, and her illustration
of a horse’s face in The Dark Gnu might just as well illustrate her poem, “How You Might
Approach a Foal.” The painting depicts a horse’s face in profile, with large brown, half-moon
eyes, luscious lashes, and a mane of pastel greens, browns, blues, and pinks. The mouth appears
washed out at the bottom of the painting, but the poet supplies the proverbial wisdom:
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“Wherever you go, there is the moon.”<span style="vertical-align: 4pt;">5 </span></i></span><br />
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Like her paintings, Videlock’s poems are at once
sophisticated and childlike, bubbling with rhyme, fantasy, and humor. With characteristic
whimsy, she introduces herself to strangers not as painter or poet, but as “a cat behavior
specialist. Or balloon artist. I can talk to anyone about cats or balloons.”<span style="vertical-align: 4pt;">6 </span>Yes, whimsical, but in a
crafty way. And while she does produce remarkable images in her poems, Videlock does not
present herself as a painterly poet in the manner of an imagist, as sound drives her poetry as
much as image. In fact, she agrees with A.E. Stallings that “Rhyme is an engine of syntax,” and
unapologetically uses rhyme in creating hybrid, usually compressed forms.<span style="vertical-align: 4pt;">7</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>If one studies Videlock’s poems carefully, one typically finds vestiges of other forms: list
poems, proverbs, haiku, riddles, sonnets. Her Nevertheless includes her poem, “In Praise of
Form,” with the urgent line, “I’ve grown attached to skeletons” (l. 1), a poem in quatrains with
basic tetrameters, sans rhyme.<span style="vertical-align: 4pt;">8 </span>“The peach,” she announces, “without its pit, is nothing more /
than impotence or useless juice” (ll. 8-10). But her skeletons, or peaches, tend to be dreaming
(not necessarily dreamy) structures with tremendous focus on the next line, the next word. The
list poem “Of Coverings” is sixteen lines, one luminescent word after another, line by line:
“Crystals, / whorls, / seeds, / pods, / phantoms, / daemons, / lucid / gods . . .” (ll. 1-8).<span style="vertical-align: 4pt;">9 </span>As in so
many of her poems, here the breath waits in suspense for final word in the final line that
completes the form with the sentence. At times, Videlock exercises well-tried forms, as in
“Prufrock Takes a Formal Lover,” but spaces the sonnet into unrhymed quatrains and a couplet.
The reader is likely to come to recognition of genre with half surprise in the final line: “one
hundred sonnets for a sideways kiss” (l. 14).<span style="vertical-align: 4pt;">10 </span>In other poems, the development of form is a
satiric riff, as her delightful rhyme on love-making and parody of Flarf, simply entitled “!”: </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I think that I shall never fear / A brontosaurus that is queer” (l. 25).<span style="vertical-align: 4pt;">11</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: 4pt;"></span>In other poems, the genesis of
form is more mysterious. Her poem, “The Road that Cannot Make up Her Mind,” begins as a
tercet sonnet, playfully satirizing Frost’s “Road not Taken,” but dissolves into a shorter poem
without the tercets. In all these forms, the theme of Ayanna, or the beautiful certainty of
uncertainty, plays out, including Videlock’s poem “How You Might Approach a Foal.”</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>So, we have now come to Videlock’s equine title, new born, fragile, full of uncertainty,
full of life, waiting for the predicate that will complete her poem with the evanescence of ink.
While most poets in The Best American Poetry indulge happily in commentary on their
inclusions, Videlock did not comment on “How You Might Approach a Foal.” That omission is
unsurprising, given that even in her interviews she often speaks less than her interviewer. As she
told David Mason, “Yes, silence is underrated and language overused. Where these things come
from I can’t really say. My love of them probably grew in the dark, and like everything else, had
to fight for some sunlight. I think it was Frost who said, ‘One must be a little secret in order to
secrete.’ This seems to be true of my nature.”<span style="vertical-align: 4pt;">12 </span>Silent and secretive about her poems, Wendy
Videlock secretes well. “How You Might Approach a Foal” is long by Videlock standards, at 24
lines, but each line is spare as a half breath, awaiting the conclusion of poem with the final word
and the one and only period. A syntax of whispered comparisons, punctuated by occasional
rhymes, drives the poem, built on the simile like:
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>like you<br />
had never been
to the outer brink
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like hay,<br />
like air,
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just this morning
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Clearly, the foal is part of Videlock’s mythology of the West as a “mystical, unreachable
destination.” The experience of the poem is both sensuous and mystical. As the reader might
notice, although the poem is crafted in tercets, it is almost painful to extract only part of poem, as
the tercets are interlocked by rhyme, near rhymes, and a syntax that awaits the final line.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>definite statement of an “approach” toward new life. The “Might” of the title is emphatic. Every
“like” in the poem is a suggestion that hints at a secret unable to be defined exactly in words—a
sacred statement about new life. The lagoon and canoe of lines 1-2 begin the poem, glistening in
the waters of birth, and lines 3-5 advance the comparison to you, reminding the reader of his or
her kinship with new life. The déjà-vu is a reminder of birth, which is mystically jamais-vu,
never-seen, although experienced by the child. This same uncertainty of the mother who “just
this morning / had combed a dream / into your hair.” The maternal presence is an abiding one in
dreams, recalling one’s unrecallable birth. The ancient, ever-new experience of birth is as vital as
air or hay for a horse, as traumatic as a venture to the outer brink, as beautiful as an experience
of the inner Louvre, and yet unable to be known entirely. And the rhymes, moon, lagoon, you,
déjà-vu, hair, air, as well as consonances such as lagoon, been, drive the sounds of the poem
forward to the final line.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>In the final three tercets of “How You Might Approach a Foal” comes the moment of both
parturition and transformation of the reader. Videlock concludes:
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had never heard
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or a harsh word,
like a fool
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The sacred language becomes overt in the conclusion, but is distinguished from the religiosity of
sermons and harsh words. This is a gospel of rebirth (John 3:3), a pearl of “great price” (Matth.
13:46), a becoming a fool to be wise (1 Cor. 3:18), an invocation of sacred language not to refer
to a far-off heaven, but the other-worldly experience of worldly birth. At once, the foal and the
reader become new to the world, united by the miracle of new life. Even the most jaded reader
cannot help but be moved by it, and pause at the end of the sentence, which is also the beginning
of life. In this as much as any of her poems, Videlock makes silence speak in hushed reverence
for the present moment.
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To return to the literary parlor game of the introduction, I would not study Wendy
Videlock to understand some features of contemporary poetry. She seldom writes in free verse in
an expansive way. Her range of geography, characters, and poetic practices is somewhat
circumscribed. She won’t engage in conceptualist experiments, won’t become a master theorist
of poetics, and won’t venture too far from her childhood gods and daemons. D.A. Jeremy Telman
says of her work: “Just as one can walk into a room in an art gallery, see a painting for the first
time and immediately recognize it as a Van Gogh or a Cezanne, one immediately knows when
one is reading Videlock”<span style="vertical-align: 4pt;">14 </span>She doesn’t do everything, but for what she does, Videlock is as
distinctive and fine a poet as you can find. So if you want to read a short poem to make your
breath tense, to hang onto every word and the silence between words; if you want to delve into a
poem like a Zen koan; if you want to savor a poem to help you become more mindful of the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">beautiful present moment, then you do want to read Wendy Videlock. If you read one of her
poems, slowly, again and again, you will want to read more.</span></i></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 4.000000pt;">1 </span><span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Videlock, </span><span style="font-family: "timesnewromanps"; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">Slingshots and love plums </span><span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(San Jose, CA.: Able Muse Press, 2015), 35.
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<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 4.000000pt;">2 </span><span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ibid, 51.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">Hestia shook her head. "I am here because when all else fails, when all the other mighty gods have gone off to war, I am all that's left. Home. Hearth. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">I am the last Olympian". (</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">rick riordan)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have been thinking a lot these days about penguins, parachutes, poppies, portable potties, and intellectual honesty. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And I have been pondering the difference between guilt and responsibility, generosity and miserliness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not in the other guy, but at </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the prow of one's own vessel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have reached no conclusions, thank odd. I only know what I suppose I have always known: that poetry at its best has something to do with raising the frequency -- or perhaps grounding the anchor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In recent months I have witnessed within a ten mile radius of our home, a Weeping Serbian Pine in a blistering terrain, a grape of bronze and aquamarine, a secret monument to the tribal archetypes, some bulldozers, the ghost of a pine, Mars, Venus, Jupiter -- and I have glimpsed the dance of the rain in a broken grain of sand. </span></div>
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#alcoholink #fluidart #animalart #autumnart #zodiac #poetry #rilke #johndonne #heathermchugh #owling #autumnart #verseofthedaywendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06615468753561356176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684048889623350673.post-67163883539859041782018-08-23T12:33:00.000-06:002018-10-10T11:37:13.488-06:00i.m. Nathan Carson, Nov 2, 1979 - Aug 11, 2018<style type="text/css">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While everyone else carefully approached the mic and nervously read their painfully personal poems, Nathan bounded on stage reciting Baudelaire. It seemed a remarkable pairing: a fresh faced, skinny kid, reciting hellish, beautiful verses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I later approached him, as any good elder should, and told him he was far too young to be reading Baudelaire. He looked about fifteen, though he was in fact, college age. In any case, he lifted his shirt and assured me that he didn't just read Baudelaire; he'd had his words tattooed down his rib cage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thus began a friendship that was at times exhilarating, other times, poignant, other times devastating. I began inviting him to all manner of literary events, and he was perpetually up for anything -- with a bunch of crusty old folks. Road trips to festivals, late nights round the fire, concerts on a whim. He relished spending time with folks who were two, three times his age, and was always a refreshing, inquisitive voice and a great conversationist. If the room was filled with self satisfied liberals, he argued conservatism. If the room was filled with stodgy conservatives, he was the raging liberal. Whatever the alchemy, he became the missing element. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Everything he did he did with an intuitive's grace, skill, and vulnerability. And with a serious bent toward self destruction. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When folks would tell him he was brilliant, he'd respond, <i>Thanks, man, I totally agree. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I once reached out to him when a family member was dying. He simply replied, Every story ends the same, my friend. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His only published book, a memoir titled Confessions of a Diarrhetic, was surprisingly beautifully written. Though I wished he'd had a good editor, I was shocked that such a young person should possess such talent. The book is funny, tragic, heartfelt, philosophic. Well, everyone knows I take in strays. I began inviting him to the house for dinner, and he quickly became a friend of the family. My daughter loved him because he was hip and sarcastic and had tattoos. She sports one of his tattoos on her body -- an image of Peter Pan. My son loved him for his passionate love of sports and gaming. My husband loved him because he had no filter, because he was crude and kind at once, because he was deeply curious, and for his deep devotion to Tolkien. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I suppose I loved him for all those same reasons, but mostly because he was unapologetically himself. From the beginning, he felt like kin. Everything art and everything life was a spiritual journey for Nathan. He suffered, and he suffered greatly, but he was always quick to laugh, to learn, to make extraordinary art from the chaos that was his inner world. He had a sharp critical acumen, and a child's openness to everything. A rare combination. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Over the years I've taught alcohol inks to probably hundreds of people. Nobody took to the medium like Nathan. I daresay nobody mastered the medium like he did. Across mediums, Nathan simply dove in, seeking excellence and the extraordinary. He always found it. He had an astonishing work ethic, and he was dangerously fearless. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He watched me demo the inks for a few brief seconds, and then he was off to the races, making the medium his own. I'd never seen anything like it. He was a natural at everything artistic, and always preached that the impulse has got to be love. Otherwise, we're fucked, he'd say. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />Nathan was always off to the races. Nathan was always pushing buttons. Deeply introverted, and incredibly social, he was a series of contradictions: a young genius, tortured, brilliant, compassionate, and dark as the night is long. Psychotic episodes came more and more frequently. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's a video of him singing with his beloved guitar, which, some years later, he smashed to pieces, a symbolic gesture of leaving his musical career behind:</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu41T9StpaE">Nathan: The Aristotle of Me</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nathan spent the last couple of years in NYC, here in western Colorado, on the streets and in and out of jail. The last few times I'd seen him he'd almost entirely lost touch with reality as we know it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He ended his own life last week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The service was the most beautiful service I think I've ever attended, brimming as it was with Nathan's music, poems, songs, paintings, stories, and spirit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The child had lived a hundred lifetimes in a mere thirty-nine years. I'd always known he was driven, but I realize only now, just how profoundly prolific he was. In the last year of his life alone, he'd produced a hundred large scale paintings. And the writing never stopped. The writing sustained him until the end. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am on the fool's journey, he would tell me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The fool falls off the cliff, I'd remind him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Only if his toothy guardians aren't there to save him, he would reply, half joking, half imploring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nathan never slept. He wrote, painted, despaired, found solace, and kept guard while the rest of the world was sleeping. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Find something you love, said Bukowksi, and let it kill you. In recent years, Bukowski became what Nathan called his surrogate father. Be careful who you revere, I would caution. But Nathan never listened to caution. Nathan never listened to the rest of us telling him how he was supposed to live. He lived like a goddamn shooting star. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No force on earth could stop him. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He called me his good witch, his primal spirit, his pixie mama, his mentor, his strange brew. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I called him simply <i>Yon Nathan</i>, as he was ever young, and ever dreaming of far away. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We chose one another from a a cardboard box on the side of the road, instantly forming a bond that lasts forever. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No real bond is broken by death. </span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>sometimes i get down</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>because i'm not important</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>led zeppelin lyrics are,</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>and that 50 shades of gray sold 100 million copies,</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>and how (inexplicably) everyone knows einstein's equation</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>but cannot name the inventor of t.v.</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>four hundred thousand brilliant novels</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>died with their authors.</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>the authors became trees, </i></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>the trees became greeting cards</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>-their words, less than that.</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>in a bar in alaska a poet sings a song so good </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've been trying to learn to breathe. I'm very good at holding my breath, and rushing myself about from here to there to somewhere else. But drinking water, and breathing air always seem profoundly new to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So there I was, walking with the dog along the river, watching the red-wings do their thing, thinking of nothing much, when </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">it suddenly occurred </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to me </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What human </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">wouldn't want to know </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the solitary crow,</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and four-o-clocks.</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've recently finished a commission of several paintings for a doctor's office over in Junction. Large pieces. The daunting substrate and the big ol paintbrush sat there for weeks before I could bring myself to begin. Somehow the stakes feel so ridiculously high, they dwarf the sky. In general, I'm comfortable working small: small poems, small paintings, small gardens, small dwellings. This works well for someone with OCC, (Obsessive Creative Compulsion), as I can have several projects firing at once. Spark, spark, spark. And by the way,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>If not for the dark,</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">no spark.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Do you see those seven little words above? They have been selected to appear in a college textbook due out next year entitled: Literature: An introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, (17th edition, ed Goia and XJKennedy). I suspect those seven little words will appear in a section called Really Really Really Short Poems. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But in recent years, lo, and be almost whole, the scale has begun to change. The hole in the wall has begun to grow. We bought a larger home, and with it, assumed a larger relationship to mountain, valley, sky, and critter. Such living nurtures the hermit soul in me, and starves my inner hobbit, who is most comfortable bumbling about in the small. In any event, it is difficult to leave home. Impossible to leave at dusk, just as the Bookcliffs and the Mesa begin lighting up and softening like melted pastels. (The painted desert ain't just a park in Arizona). So I suppose it makes sense that I've been writing longer lines in verse and plenty of prose since chucking the noisy cottage in town and moving out into open, quiet space. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What I didn't expect was that the impulse to know the nature of story, particularly local story, was going to force me to see, (in everything), what we call <i>competing narratives. </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dear Tomas, who taught me to enter the classroom and teach with a child's song in my heart, may you rest deep, and may you rest in peace. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dear Timothy Tim, who tested my patience and tested our friendship and tested the waters and tested your own vast capacities each day of the week, may you rest in the arms of the trees and the prophets, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and may you rest in peace. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dear Andrea, dark star, white witch, tiny little warrior, you who changed your name and changed your face and changed your name again only to vanish in the mist, may you be a neighboring star, moon-soaked, earth kissed. The road was hardly paved in gold, but I think I'll miss you most, sister crow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not to mention the deaths of three friends' dear husbands this past year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, we are certainly of the age when one begins losing count of their dead. Instead, it seems everything's a memento mori, and everything an affirmation. Although in truth, it's probably always been like that. Poets, they say, are notoriously death obsessed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've come to believe the same is true of story. Perhaps competing narratives are not in competition, but in conversation. Of course there are those who believe conversation is a competition. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm told in shaman cultures, the word <i>death</i> is akin to the word, <i>cure.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Essence, Guddjieff tells us, is a child. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Still, it is difficult to sleep, or wake during times of drought, and grief. </span></div>
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#owlart #poetry #alcholink #mushroomart #verseofthedaywendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06615468753561356176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684048889623350673.post-48698451653865564412018-06-30T11:35:00.002-06:002018-06-30T13:10:54.446-06:00Ave Atque Vale, Timothy Murphy<br />
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There is no end<br />
to the wanderer's sorrow.<br />
The wisdom of Erda<br />
queried by Wotan,<br />
the counsel of Ragna<br />
sung in a saga.<br />
I'll follow tomorrow,<br />
tomorrow if ever,<br />
for I am no friend<br />
of Volsung or Vala.<br />
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Here's Tim reciting the Dirge from the Wulf, which he and Alan Sullivan had translated a few years back:<br />
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<br />wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06615468753561356176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684048889623350673.post-6367636503052943772018-05-23T17:57:00.004-06:002018-05-23T18:04:36.569-06:00Ah, the Arts ! Oh, Humanity. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A disturbing trend:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If the author's name seems familiar, yes, he is the son of California poet laureat, Dana Gioia, well known author of <i>Can Poetry Matter. </i> The good works have commenced, the voice is a gift, and the acorn don't fall far from the oak.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile, here on the edge of the world, though there be drought which runs deep and wide, there be dusk, and dawn, and red dirt paths that cannot be denied. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And of course there be dragons. A book of essays I highly recommend: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Each essay in the book begins with a poem. In recent years I've been very interested in how writers combine their prose and poems. I have some of my own ideas up my sleeve, and am currently trying to shake them loose. At any rate, here's one from George which introduces an essay called <i>Lying Down with Fire</i> that I can't resist sharing: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Just a thing for converting hay to horseshit",</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Which we both were watching, leaning on the fence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At the back part of Bill's thirty-five</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Being paid off month by month from his job</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Digging coal for power plants he never saw.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Never really seem to have time to ride her,"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bill grumped, reaching into his pocket for his can,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For more of the stuff that takes ten minutes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Off the long hours and adds ten to the short ones.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But while he was thus occupied, the horse just</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That would have been no harder for the horse</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With a man on his back, even one with a belly like Bill's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We both watched. Mane catching the wind: thinking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What reason for a mane if there's no air to catch;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tail streaming out behind...It was just worth watching.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was just goddam beautiful. And at the far fence,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The horse stopped. Stood there looking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Beyond the fence. At what, who knew. But then,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On a similar subject, a little something my daughter recently sent my way:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>I have gone down the rabbit hole in thinking about dragons. I have seen the bare mountain range near my home in Tucson suddenly transform into the spine of a dragon. I have seen Vesuvius and Krakatoa breathe fire from their mouths as the earth shifts its vertebrae. I have seen a venomous dragon demand, one year, two sheep; the next year, one maiden; the next year, the king's virgin daughter. ...So why do dragons crop up all over the planet? Here be dragons. Here and here and here and here. One need not fall over the edge of a distant horizon to find a dragon. They emerge in the minds of ancient Greeks, Sufis, and Aztecs; in the art of the Chinese (for whom the dragon is the only mythical creature in their zodiac); among the Cherokee tribe and King Arthur's knights. They are generally a blessing in the East and a curse in the West, protectors of water in India and Mexico, tyrannical despots in North Africa and Great Britain. Dragons are monsters thrown out by the unconscious for the conscious mind to make sense of. They take us into the weird zoology of inwardness. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">I have decided to ration </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> for distraction. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> (So much </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">depends </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Meanwhile,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even as we grow old in the spring, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">ode </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">begins, </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">though I should say </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">sometimes </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Is that </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">abnormal<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> asks</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">songing toad</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">and the soggy moon</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">replies the desert bloom</span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">,</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>I'm brand new too.</i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i> </i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Something we were withholding made us weak</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Until we found that it was ourselves</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We were withholding from our land of living,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And forthwith found salvation in surrender. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Americans today usually talk about "place" and "property" as though they were interchangeable. But if you are going to really consider "place" the first thing you have to do is separate it from the concept of property. Both place and property are matters of possession, but it's who and what are possessed, and how, that are important. "Property" is a cultural convention whereby a person has the belief, confirmed legally by properly filed papers, that he or she possesses a piece of land by virtue of investing some money or labor in it. "Place" on the other hand, is something related to the land that comes to possess a person. - George Sibley</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">She kneeled upon the ground</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">She dressed in red and gold brocade</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">And in the grass an offering made</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">....Well, maybe in some other country but not in this one. In America the imagination is generally looked on as something that might be useful when the TV is out of order. Poetry and plays have no relation to practical politics. Novels are for students, housewives, and other people who don't work. Fantasy is for children and primitive peoples. Literaccy is so you can read the operating instructions. I think the imagination is the single most useful took we possess. It beats the opposable thumb. I can imagine living without my thumbs, but not without my imagination.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I hear voices agreeing with me. "Yes, yes!" they cry. "The creative imagination is a tremendous plus in business! We value creativity, we reward it!" In the marketplace, the word creativity has come to mean the generation of ideas applicable to practical strategies to make larger profits. This reduction has gone on so long that word creative can hardly be degraded further. I don't use it any more, yielding it to capitalists and academics to abuse as they like. But they can't have imagination.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And even Governments are yelling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Brand is Better than Best,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when the hoardings announce a new diet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To take all our odor away,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or a medicine to keep the kids quiet,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or a belt that will give us S.A.,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Or a soap to wash shirts in a minute,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Good men throw their bodies on the lives</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of their mothers and their children and their wives</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Each day this year, my soul has been punched and stunned</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by bullet-men ripping through the dance we do</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by bully-men raping girls or threatening to</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">while good men act as if nothing mattered more</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">than to restore the faded elf to the christmas tree</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to greet you every morning with toast and tea</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to be the hand pressed in the hole the bullet tore</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I refuse to let the good men go unsung</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">That will prove worth your telling,<br />Whether as learned bard or gifted child;<br />To it all lines or lesser gauds belong<br />That startle with their shining<br />Such common stories as they stray into.<br /><br />Is it of trees you tell, their months and virtues,<br />Or strange beasts that beset you,<br />Of birds that croak at you the Triple will?<br />Or of the Zodiac and how slow it turns<br />Below the Boreal Crown,<br />Prison to all true kings that ever reigned?<br /><br />Water to water, ark again to ark,<br />From woman back to woman:<br />So each new victim treads unfalteringly<br />The never altered circuit of his fate,<br />Bringing twelve peers as witness<br />Both to his starry rise and starry fall.<br /><br />Or is it of the Virgin's silver beauty,<br />All fish below the thighs?<br />She in her left hand bears a leafy quince;<br />When, with her right hand she crooks a finger, smiling,<br />How many the King hold back?<br />Royally then he barters life for love.<br /><br />Or of the undying snake from chaos hatched,<br />Whose coils contain the ocean,<br />Into whose chops with naked sword he springs,<br />Then in black water, tangled by the reeds,<br />Battles three days and nights,<br />To be spewed up beside her scalloped shore?<br /><br />Much snow if falling, winds roar hollowly,<br />The owl hoots from the elder,<br />Fear in your heart cries to the loving-cup:<br />Sorrow to sorrow as the sparks fly upward.<br />The log groans and confesses:<br />There is one story and one story only.<br /><br />Dwell on her graciousness, dwell on her smiling,<br />Do not forget what flowers<br />The great boar trampled down in ivy time.<br />Her brow was creamy as the crested wave,<br />Her sea-blue eyes were wild<br />But nothing promised that is not performed.</span></h1>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And all their eyes still fixed, hoping to find once more, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All these years</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">with my skin on,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">there's something sublime </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">about the line. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the beginning was the word, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the word </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">nobody heard,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and only the shadow, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Perhaps</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It isn't where</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a line begins</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">or suddenly, strangely</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Says Rudolf Arnheim, <i>the line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change, and cannot be described by a compass, as it changes direction at every one of its points. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ah, art, oh, modernism! What have you made of the horizon, what have you learned from your physics, what have you done to the line ? The one that vanishes into eternity, into the cloud of the imagined, the line that sweeps our visionary vision up the holy moly </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">mountain or down the deep, dark, mysterious hall -- </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and in so doing, connects us all ? </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of shadow's daughter,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A review by Greg Hobbs of Belle Turnbulle's book, (Unsung Masters Series, Pleiades Press) appears in the current issue of High Country News. This is a book that my friend, David Rothman, fought hard to put into print. A small bevy of us blurbed, reviewed, and sat on panels in order to bring Belle out of obscurity in the state and beyond. Big thanks to Brian Calvert of High Country News for publishing it. From Hobbs' review: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A couple of old Fruita friends, Cullen Purser and Dan Rosen have recently created a visual ode to Labors of Love, Sisyphean efforts, and the Colorada Beaver. Cullen and his wife, Jeannine, own and operate Cavalcade, a venue devoted to nurturing the musical and performing arts, and Dan is the owner and founder of Lithic Books out in Fruita Land. Both are old friends of an eccentric sort. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jeff Lee and Ann Martin of Denver, founders of The Rocky Mountain Land Library, are the ultimate practitioners of the labor of love. Here's an overview of their work from the New York Times: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Land Library also has a online presence, featuring poets and their works. Here you'll find work from Edwards poet Jodie Hollander, who's been instrumental in getting the word out about the Land Library, old friend Uche Ogbuji, artist Meridith Nemerov, yrs truly, and others: </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mountains cast spells on me—<br /> Why, because of the way<br />Earth-heaps lie, should I be<br />Choked by joy mysteriously;<br /> Stilled or drunken-gay?</span></div>
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wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06615468753561356176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684048889623350673.post-88799613158010365972017-10-27T11:53:00.002-06:002017-10-27T12:16:06.544-06:00Coyote Calls us to the Things of This World <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The howl of the coyote is America's original national anthem. - Dan Flores</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now they are rising together in calm swells </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Now they are flying in place, conveying</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With a warm look the world’s hunks and colors, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The soul descends once more in bitter love </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wilbur had a way of keeping all the balls in the air .... -- AE Stallings</span></div>
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<b>The Juggler: </b><b style="font-style: inherit; text-indent: -1em;"><a href="https://theamericanscholar.org/remembering-richard-wilbur/#.WfNtSBTnd79">Stallings remembering Wilbur </a></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">O Egypt, Egypt -- so the great lament</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of thrice-great Hermes went --</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nothing of thy religion shall remain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Save fables, which thy children shall disdain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His grieving eye foresaw</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The world's bright fabric overthrown</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which married star to stone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And charged all things with awe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And what, in that dismantled world, could be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More fabulous than he?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Had he existed? Was he but a name</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tacked on to forgeries which pressed the claim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of every ancient quack </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That could from a smoky cell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By talisman or spell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Still, we summon him at midnight hour</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To Milton's pensive tower,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And hear him tell again how, then and now,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Creation is a house of mirrors, how,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each herb that sips the dew</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dazzles the eye with many small</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reflections of the All -- </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which after all, is true. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- Richard P Wilbur</span></div>
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