From: fshck@UMAC on 12/02/2001 09:09 PM
Daniel,
if you haven't read the Tao Te Ching or the Zhuangzi (or Chuang Tzu) - esp.
chapters one and two - I think you might find them interesting.
Christopher Kelen,
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities,
University of Macau, P.O. Box 3001
Taipa, Macau S.A.R., China
telephone:
853 3974 212 (office)
853 3974 621 (home)
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I suppose I should have complied all my replies into one grand message but
I hope everyone doesn't mind too much. In the future I shall be more space
considerate. Well, what shall I say about myself? I've been writing poetry
for about 3 years (furiously spilling out 1000 or so poems), I'm now 23 and
feel that I have approached the culmination of my poetic drive. My poetry,
uptil now, was a sweeping type of metaphysical, quasi-spiritual, pseudo-
intellectual, miopic splattering... Much like Jorie Graham's work but less
stringent...When i say that I have approached the culimation of my poetic
drive, I mean to say that I have, for the time-being, stopped writing
poetry. It has failed to provide me with the type of "meaning" satisfaction
that I initially took it up for. I suppose I grew tried of not saying
anything. Don't misunderstand me, I do not assume all poetry is meaningless
verbiage, but for my own purposes, poetry left me without an exacting knife
to wield. It was too open to interpretation, when what I really wanted to
do was do some of the interpreting. I sincerely believe that nature
continually speaks to us, though obviously not in words but in music that
one can hear with the eyes. One day i realized that when i was writing my
poems I was watching the trees "looking for words" when I should have been
hearing what was going on "without" them, so to speak. I should have been
listening to what in my own heart was engaging them, causing them to
be "being seen". I should have been freely interpreting "What keeps from
happening". Anyhow, I could go on like this forever but the point is that I
found myself leaning increasingly toward philosophy. But modern analytical
philosophy has shunned metaphysics and so I feel I am in a bit of a
conundrum. I don't entirely fit with poets and not entirely with the new
breed of philosophers, but this does not at all bother me. I suppose I like
my position quite well. So I like to correspond with both parties and
appreciate both perspectives.
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:51:03 -0000, david.bircumshaw
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Hi Daniel
>
>As Candice says : 'Maybe you could introduce yourself and tell us
something
>about your poetry.'
>
>It would be a better way to start a dialogue.
>
>
>cheers
>
>david b
