A great essay "interview" by Sam Anderson with the amazing Anne Carson in the New York Times Magazine. I think you can check it out here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/magazine/the-inscrutable-brilliance-of-anne-carson.html?ref=magazine&_r=0
I'm really looking forward to her new book, Red Doc>
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Also -- I love this poem by Dana Levin from today's Poem a Day:
The Gods Are in the
Valley
by
Dana Levin
The mind sports
god-extensions.
It's the mountain from which the tributaries spring: self, self, self, self-- rivering up on curling plumes from his elaborate head-piece of smoke. His head's on fire. Like a paleolithic shaman working now in the realm of air, he folds his hands-- No more casting bones for the consulting seeker, this gesture seems to mean. Your business, his flaming head suggests, is with your thought-machine. How it churns and churns. Lord Should and Not-Enough, Mute the Gigantor, looming dumb with her stringy hair-- Deadalive Mom-n-Dad (in the sarcophagi of parentheses you've placed them)-- He's a yogi, your man with a hat of smoke. Serene, chugging out streams of constructed air... Mind's an accident of bio-wiring, is one line of thinking. We're animals that shit out consciousness, is another. The yogi says: you must understand yourself as projected vapor. Thus achieve your superpower. |
Copyright © 2013 by
Dana Levin. Used with permission of the author.
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About this Poem:
"The poem was sparked by a drawing accompanying an 8th Century Chinese
alchemical text, The Secret of the Golden Flower. To me, the drawing
makes an argument for the multiplicity of self, the projected self, the
vaporous, ever-changing nature of self: self as smoke. Something of continuous
interest to me."
Dana Levin |
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