The Taoist notion of emptiness is one that never ceases to fascinate me and one that I have been able to apply to art analysis with awe-full results. Lao-ztu in the Tao Te Ching chapter 11 says its best.
We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.
We shape [...]
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Thoughts on the Not There
Posted in Poetry, tagged Daoism, Emptiness, Lao-tzu, Not There, Tao Te Ching, Taoism on March 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Censored Howl
Posted in Poetry, tagged Allen, Ginsberg, Howl, San Francisco State University, Ubu on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is a shame that Ginsberg himself would “blank” out portions of his own poem during a October 25, 1956 reading in San Francisco State University. Most of the portions that were censored were all references to his homosexual tendencies. Bravo to Ginsberg’s openess in 1956, but within the themes of humyn-animal urgency that compose [...]
Trouble by Matthew Dickman
Posted in Poetry, tagged Dickman, Matthew, Poetry, Suicide, The New Yorker on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Trouble by Matthew Dickman published in The New Yorker on August 18th 2008
Marilyn Monroe took all her sleeping pills
to bed when she was thirty-six, and Marlon Brando’s daughter
hung in the Tahitian bedroom
of her mother’s house,
while Stanley Adams shot himself in the head. Sometimes
you can look at the clouds or the trees
and they look nothing like [...]
Walt Whitman is a Badass like Ghost Dog
Posted in Poetry, tagged Avante-garde, Leaves of Grass, Modernism, Poetry, Walt, Whitman on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is Ghost Dog and this is Walt Whitman…
The rhyme and uniformity of perfect poems show the free growth of metrical laws and bud from them as unerringly and loosely as lilacs or roses on a bush, and take shapes as compact as the shapes of chestnuts and oranges and melons and pears, and shed [...]
Man on Wire and Poetic Terrorism
Posted in Film and Video, Poetry, tagged 1974, Carnival, Center, French, Man on Wire, NYC, Rope, Tight Rope, Trade, Walker, Wire, World on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few random thoughts, hodge podge, lack order
Movie – Man on Wire
Art as crime! Why didn’t Hakim Bey cite this spectacle? Disruption for the sake of it. Look! A man suspended mid-air between the towers of the World Trade Center, life and death as art.
What drove the movies characters to tears? Was it the unexplainable [...]
The Heaven of Animals
Posted in Poetry, tagged Animals, Dickey, Evolution, Heaven, James, Poetry on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Heaven of Animals
Here they are. The soft eyes open.
If they have lived in a wood
It is a wood.
If they have lived on plains it is grass rolling
Under their feet forever.
Having no souls, they have come,
Anyway, beyond their knowing.
Their instincts wholly bloom
And they rise.
The soft eyes open.
To match them, the landscape flowers,
Outdoing, desperately
Outdoing what [...]
Gloria Fuertes – Escribo
Posted in Poetry, tagged Escribo, Gloria Fuertes, I Write, Poesía, Poetry on January 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Escribo de Gloria Fuertes
Escribo sin modelo
A lo que salga,
Escribo de memoria
De repente,
Escribo sobre mí,
Sobre la gente,
Como un trágico juego
Sin cartas solitario,
Barajo los colores,
Los amores,
Las urbanas personas
Las violentas palabras
Y en vez de echarme al odio
O a la calle,
Escribo a lo que salga.
(De Historia de Gloria, Madrid: Cátedra).
I Write by Gloria Fuertes Translated by Alberto Duarte
I write [...]
