Now, after attending my friend’s funeral service, I see the importance of doing all the writing I can given the undetermined amount of time I have on this violently indifferent rock. (journal on the way to Manhattan for work 6/19).
what followed was this:
organ pipes and yawning
gods through
telephones and fiber ops
advice: be a wheat farmer
immortal and rest follows
will jewel over while
dark-leafed oaks
thorough push through
coal covered hills, this is
a vision if it wants,
a lantern gasps
as six men and two women
bury kerosene underneath
a handful of colorless carnations
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it’s the first thing I’ve written in a long time. roughly about 2 months. I spent my time putting together my senior chapbook |Psalms| in April. I’ll actually be putting the chapbook up for free on here at some point, if I can figure out how to put an attachment up for people to download.
I’ve been reading two things as of right now. Wittgenstein’s Philosphical Investigations and random books of poetry (right now it’s William Carlos Williams Collected Poems Vol. I 1909-1939). I had a class last semester that specifically covered only Wittgenstein. We went over his primary texts Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations. I hadn’t done the reading at all really in the Investigations and we didn’t read the whole thing, just excerpted sections (though we did cover the major points). Wittgenstein is extremely relevant to writing, though he speaks about language in a different way than someone discussing poetics. For example, in one instance naming and stating the name of the object to jar an understanding does not really provide us with the use of said object, then, is it correct to see we actually have an understanding? (see sections 26-29 of Part I for the more elaborated version).
Williams on the other hand has kind of been what I grab when I want to read something of varying lengths but all adhere to that same kind of exuberant and innocent tone that addresses more serious ideas and objects one might not expect from such a style of writing. [A good example of this would be to look at "Tract" within my blog with the same title. ]. Williams is probably my favorite Modernist writer with H.D. [whom, for me at least, gets less attention compared to Pound, Williams, and the other male Modernist writers, though she deserves just as much] and Pound fighting a close 2nd.
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Right now I’m drinking Yuengling Black and Tan, good beer. Hopefully in another two weeks I’ll see some people I haven’t seen in awhile. Some of which I can play music with. Still haven’t joined the Central PA Music Collective yet. I’ll get around to that eventually though.
Stay Alive,
peace
Ca
-12:45, 6/22/2008
