“All Suicides (Are Cowards),” which I read at Africando, will be published in my next collection of poetry, Nearing Fifty.
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October 17, 2008
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"This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand. We were here; we are human beings; this is how we lived. Let it be known, the earth passed before us. Our details are important. Otherwise, if they are not, we can drop a bomb and it doesn’t matter.”
~ Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones
"The immediacy of a work of art is what gives it lasting life. It is a paradox, of course, which is to say a life-giving contradiction, the opposite of a solvable mystery. And when one focuses the thoughtful mind on what is there before us, what is immanent, then a sense of loss hazes in, ineluctably. For that idea-generating surrender to the immanent must pass, and quickly. The trick is to enshrine that surrender in the work, so others can experience it inexhaustibly. That is the function of art—not self-expression, not social commentary, not innovating on or reacting to what other artists have done. To defy the temporal, the flux, art enshrines."
~Ricardo Pau-LLosa @ Americano
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5 Comments:
I'm beginning to look forward to Fridays with glee again!
Kea leboha.
Thanks, Rethabile..
I'll see if I can crank out one more for next week Friday.
I'll be there at the rendezvous next Friday.
Speaking of suicide, Geoffrey, check out this sad story.
And thanks for posting the videos! You are AWESOME!
Dave, give thanks for the uplifting words.
Yeah, it is a sad story...
Have a great weekend!
Peace,
geoffrey
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