Dear Friends, Conversations about cooking? Green Eggs and Ham? Gerard Manley Hopkins? A Wooden Floor? You’ll find them here, since all of these were stars of the talk I gave during winter retreat.
dear sal, this is such a great talk, moving and beautiful. and did i hear you say that "poetry is neither speech nor silence"? in the context of the big question of vagueness versus alienation, that felt like a revelation. really enjoyed this! warmest greetings! n.
Nick! Yes, I did say that poetry is neither speech nor silence, though I’m still working out what that might mean and what follows from it. I’m so glad you got a chance to see this & that you enjoyed. Thank you!!
Thank you for your remarks. A day after reading this, as I was reading Kawabata Yasunari's Nobel Lecture, I happened to come upon what I think may be the poem about the moon you mentioned. It's by the priest Myoe, and an English translation appears in the lecture at this link: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1968/kawabata/lecture/
dear sal, this is such a great talk, moving and beautiful. and did i hear you say that "poetry is neither speech nor silence"? in the context of the big question of vagueness versus alienation, that felt like a revelation. really enjoyed this! warmest greetings! n.
Nick! Yes, I did say that poetry is neither speech nor silence, though I’m still working out what that might mean and what follows from it. I’m so glad you got a chance to see this & that you enjoyed. Thank you!!
Thank you for your remarks. A day after reading this, as I was reading Kawabata Yasunari's Nobel Lecture, I happened to come upon what I think may be the poem about the moon you mentioned. It's by the priest Myoe, and an English translation appears in the lecture at this link: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1968/kawabata/lecture/
Oh, wow! That may be exactly it! I had a small paperback of that lecture back in high school, and still have it somewhere. Thank you!