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Overview:
If poetry could be controlled, we know who would be in control. The raising of a poetry pole has consequences for the one who raises it. There are consequences for one who puts a poem on the pole. And consequences for those who stop to read the poem. I can't tell you what they are. And what about those citizens who drive by on their way to the medical center? What are they after? Listening is making love. Listening is the deepest penetration. Listening is a political act. Poetry brings the news of the other world. This world can be accessed. The principles are basic: extreme sobriety, practicality and courage. In this tradition, in mystical spiritual traditions, truth must be verified by the listener. If something you hear doesn't ring true from your experience, then it isn't true. The invitation is an entry point. Poetry is service work. But it is not service work in the same sense that one serves the community one lives in. One serves poetry, not the community. There is a business to poetry. The business is poetry. It is a vocation. Being called to poetry, it seems to me, is being called to listen. It is listening to the deepest sounds. Inside the body. Inside one self. To the quietest impulse. In the many ways of listening. In the way I am called, or you are called, to listen. This is the vocation as I understand it. It is devotional work. And turning to it, one turns one's entire being, and in turn, one's entire consciousness changes everything that a life once was... | |
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