Duane Locke on Poetry
The two pleasures I mentioned, Satori and Mystic Vision, depend for their existence, according to their adepts and believers, on the existence of a totally other transcendent extra spatio-temporal being or force such as an Absolute, an Ultimate Principle, a Universal Truth, or Surpreme Being or something that is transpersonal, non-human, and not personal and private as the creation or engenderment of the radical singularity of a concrete particular individual such as a poet. Pleasures such as Satori or a Mystic Vision take place in a spatio-temporal, earthly realm and happen to concrete particular individuals and thus are certainties. I would call such extraordinary experiences “phenomenal realities” but the reality or etiology of their causation is indeterminate and the existence of their ultimate origin, problematic. Poems are also phenomenal realities, or semiotic realities, or linguistic realities, but are not dependent for their origins in a belief in some form of extra satio-temporal transcendent existence, whether it be called a “Muse” or something else. Poems are dependent on the radical singularity of a concrete particular individual, modified by historic time and place.
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so sorry, terribly sorry, but I don't understand any of this. I'm not really very learned.
will it be okay if I just visit and read the poems you publish?
thank you for wanting to visit my blog. clicking on the comments button doesn't work? Lane has done so.
to become a follower you'd have to click on "follow with Google" in the left-hand column (sidebar) on my home page; it doesn't work for everybody - something to do with our various blog hosts.
Somebody else replies as "anonymous", then puts her name into the comment itself.
I feel very flattered that you want to read my posts, thank you; look forward to seeing you on my blog.
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