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Just a little local library love this evening. 📚☕

And another art… this one feels not at ALL daring until the end, which keeps it real. Good poetry analysis. Restlessness of desire, restlessness of boredom. How daring relates to norms, knowledge, loss of self, understanding of risk. Revelation, confession, shame.
23 “defiance of closure is what constitutes adventurousness”
117 “restlessness sets risk into motion”
138 (on risk and revelation) “Respect or shame, it‘s pretty much your own choice”

"In Andalusia people say of certain toreos and flamenco artists that they have duende - an inexplicable power of attraction, the ability, on rare occaision, to send waves of emotion through those watching and listening to them."

My 13th #spanishbook

#PoetryMatters @TheSpineView
#Yuletide

A fitting poem as we close out 2024 and look toward 2025.

New Fable club: The Beat Generation! First read is Scratching the Beat Surface: Essays on New Vision from Blake to Kerouac.

First two follow-ups will be “Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation And America” by Dennis McNally, “Understanding Jack Kerouac” by Matt Theado.

Link if you‘re curious! https://fable.co/club/the-beat-generation-with-aurelie-lagrange-449625541661?inv...

I wanted to share a few more favorites. I tried to pick a diverse selection. These are from prostitutes, soldiers, political activists. (I think all the ones in this picture were written around WWII). A lot of the haiku in this collection hadn‘t been translated into English previously.

This April I started writing haiku. Partially as a mindfulness exercise and partially as a way to write SOMETHING. As I wrote more, I became aware of how most of what I know about haiku was taught in grade school, or I had picked up through hearsay.

I began to wish for a resource that could help me write haiku respectfully. Then one day at the library like a shining beacon I came across this. It is literally everything I had wished for.

I am totally in love with this book. About halfway through it and I just wanted to share a few of my favorites so far…

Especially the last one by Hasegawa Sosei, who after being a war correspondent and being present at the “Rape of Nanjing” wrote when he got news he was being sent back home to Japan.

Sometimes I can't get a thought out of my head. Friday it was, “wait are we a greek Chorus on Taylor Swift's new album?“ And here we are. https://youtu.be/_wWM3xuShR4