Continued from here.
If Herbert is consciously involved in the play and pull of history and morality on an obviously macro level, Tomaž Šalamun engages with those things on the level of pure consciousness and his own awareness of the mind at work. Šalamun’s mind at work is the framework upon which his poetry is [...]
Entries from July 2008
16 July 2008
absorption pt. 2
16 July 2008
absorption pt. 1
In his first daybook (ca. 1963-64), George Oppen wrote the following:
At least two kinds of devotion. The devotion to art, a sort of pragmatism of art which refuses to think anything that will not contribute to poetry. The other is a devotion which tries to makes poetry of what the mind, the free and operating [...]
9 July 2008
Let’s talk about bureaucracy
I have been thinking a lot about bureaucracy of late. Though it may seem like a somewhat dry theme to most, for me it is the most interesting thing going on in my recent (and, uh, not so recent) media consumption. I have said it before, though perhaps not in writing, that watching [...]
