Poetry &Sprituality Entropy | 01 Jul 2010
Poetry can’t be done as an act of will. You can’t say, I will now write a poem.- Poetry always begins and ends with listening, – W. S. Merwin W. S. Merwin acknowledges that his relatively reclusive life on a former pineapple plantation built atop a dormant volcano in Maui, Hawaii, will be disturbed by [...]
“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.” — Louise Glück Louise Glück is considered to be one of America’s most talented contemporary poets. The poet Robert Hass has called her “one of the purest and most accomplished lyric poets now writing,” and her poetry is noted for its technical precision, [...]
Light-years It’s a beautiful world, you said, with these trees, marshes, deserts, grasses, rivers and seas and so on. And the moon is really something in its circuits of relative radiance. Include the wingèd M, voluptuous Venus, hotheaded Mars, that lucky devil J and cranky Saturn, of course, plus U and N and the wanderer [...]
My virtual friend and gifted photographer Marie Ancolie introduced me to charming world of Russian poet Vera Pavlova and suggested to share her work on Entropy… If There is Something to Desire- is the first full collection of her poetry is published in English. The collection is translated by her husband Steven Seymour. I broke [...]
Advice to writers Even if it keeps you up all night, wash down the walls and scrub the floor of your study before composing a syllable. Clean the place as if the Pope were on his way. Spotlessness is the niece of inspiration. The more you clean, the more brilliant your writing will be, so [...]
I return to Wislawa Szymborska once again.. for her simple yet profound words..”My apologies to great questions for small answers.” This poem like all her poems can be interpreted on several levels but what can be felt especially strongly is the universally human meaning, here having both an existential and a deeply ethical dimension. A [...]