Net Galley Challenge
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
A Philosophy of Walking
I love walking. A book on it - 'A philosophy of Walking' by Frederic Gros is welcome.
soon I realised that another major focus of the book is writers, my another favourite subject.
Delays in traffic jams got me started walking. Soon I got comfortable enough to stretch my walks to test how far I could go. Even though its such and individual, personal task. The author has made various thinkers and their philosophy of walking as the centerpiece of book. The only author in this book, I knew was big on walking - Thoreau. This book has great vignettes of writers and poets whom you know only so much reading up their bio. They become flesh through their feelings during walking.
"Lastly, you are not alone because when you walk you soon become two". This sums up the self-company of walking. As I kept reading, I kept thinking of the various places that I was hiking and the feelings talked about in the book.
The freedom to be
Reference to A Night Among the Pines of
Gyrovagues
Peyote walk
Homo Viator
Time in the philosphy of Gabriel Marcel
Monday, April 14, 2014
When a bowl breaks
In the daze of morning cleaning
I set a washed brown ikea bowl
bought as is
on an inverted black pan
relegated to egg boiling
I woke up to the
sound of shards
Can I put it back
like a wooden egg puzzle
or by Kintsugi
The golden Repair
The brown bowl revealed
the ivory within
I set a washed brown ikea bowl
bought as is
on an inverted black pan
relegated to egg boiling
I woke up to the
sound of shards
Can I put it back
like a wooden egg puzzle
or by Kintsugi
The golden Repair
The brown bowl revealed
the ivory within
Kansai Cool
Gratitude
hari kuyo - Festival of broken needles.
Suikinkutsu
Suzo - ASU has one on campus.
Seeing the forest and the trees
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Letter Composed during a lull in the fighting
I heard of
Yellow Birds on NPR but hadnt read it. I am glad to have the chance to read the author in poetry.Kevin Powers
Washingtonpost
Title poem
Immagine & Poesia
Lidia Chiarelli
IMMAGINE & POESIA
The beginning poems and paintings with Emma Dickinson's
"Forever is composed of nows"
and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's epigrams set a stage that they later ones couldnt share.
The later half of the poems are about visits to the tourist spots in newyork. I was reminded of the time I spent visiting the city.
My NY Times Square poem in Urban Confustions summer issue 2011.
Saturday, April 12, 2014
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