In his novel Ulysses, James Joyce wrote: Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access . . . Joyce’s quote reminds me of something Herbert Marcuse once said about art: Art [functions to] break open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand…
Here’s part of a recent conference proposal that is all about valuing inner vision. I hope it inspires you to value your unspoken, unarticulated knowings today…I believe they’re more important than what we can actually “see” in the physical world. The ancient Sufis believed there are three worlds: the world of the senses, the world…
The coolest thing about publishing a book is the community and connections that happen. I didn’t know it would be this way. Many years ago I had a vision of plunging into a dark abyss. It was scary of course–we never know what’s going to happen when we plunge into dark abysses. In fact, our…
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I taught a Concrete Poetry class last weekend at Book Passage. It was a lot of fun. I have to admit that I’ve never actually taken a poetry class myself, either in college or post-college, although I’ve read a lot of books by poets about poetry. My favorite is Steve Kowit’s In the Palm of…
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