tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post1796868272835957579..comments2024-02-22T15:48:50.427-08:00Comments on Poems and Poetics: Stuart Kendall: from “The Epic of Gilgamesh,” newly revisioned (with a note on the translation)Jerome Rothenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14166931849293504537noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post-24052459758577523342011-11-10T06:57:19.671-08:002011-11-10T06:57:19.671-08:00pee est:
ever hear Charles Olson read (I think i...pee est:<br /><br />ever hear Charles Olson read (I think it is called) ENIALION<br /><br /><br />or<br /><br />read it out loud in an empty room?<br /><br />imagine that room a cave deep down in and the words/voice BOOMING off of the walls...<br /><br />all around SACRED SOUND<br /> as what you excerpts here...<br /><br />(I first "heard" this sound via my own writing in Song of Chin especially the "preface to Song of Chin"<br /><br />and<br /><br />hells/bells<br /><br />this opens OPENS hittingtheground run<br />ning:<br /><br />A miricle<br />more ordinary than<br />the grass<br />under our feet<br />the hot sun<br />as it dazzles<br />eyes & skin<br /><br />(...)Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post-1771389975902545632011-11-10T06:49:31.290-08:002011-11-10T06:49:31.290-08:00even pre-Paleolithic ? I mean
myths do/did precede...even pre-Paleolithic ? I mean<br />myths do/did precede any writing (on those cave walls)<br /><br />via an oral-ality... out beyond and back into our collective unconscious <br /> the reality of the mind<br />compliments just a real as "the material/scientific" world ?<br /><br /> we just might gather our "selves" around a 30,000 year-old fire-in-a-cave<br /> and<br /><br />re:claim our basic shamanistic humanity ?<br /><br /> sounds like an actual getting beyond the "literal'physical" as not being the only criterion of truth<br /><br /><br />(as Jung writes) ""there are also psychic truths which can neither be explained nor proved not contested in any physical way."<br /><br />Homer did not sprain full blown... the stores were already there ... they just came-through-himEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.com