"I'm just trying/ to get through enemy lines / with my words."
Karl Krolow
Translated by Stuart Friebert
If you listened to the latest @OdeAndPsyche on Franz Wright, we discuss Krolow was one of his great German poet influences-- new to me. & Im Loving it so much.
Mike Eigen is so great. I've been thinking about the rejection of the so-called "mystical" from various angles--he's speaking to it as a dimension or dimensions-of experience. I love how he admits not knowing exactly, keeping open.
& I love
this bit where he feels like a vagina.
https://t.co/VXDO44loMO Me and Steve from @TheIdiotsIChing got together on Hampstead Heath a few days ago and talked about Reich & the I Ching in a nice, free flowing chat. Please give it a listen if these topics grab you
what are some films which are philosophical without feeling like 'thought experiments'? (so more like First Reformed or Margaret or Yi Yi and less like Truman Show or The Matrix)
The extraordinary sequence in Proust’s Time Regained where the narrator fails to recognise a room full of elderly-looking people before realising that, in fact, they’re his friends who have like him become old without realising.
IT'S HERE🚨 Join me & Alina Stefanescu to discuss Rilke's "The First Elegy," which sets the stage for his decade long inquiry into the inner-outer world of the psyche, experience in the world & the "mission" of his poetic oeuvre 🌬️🔥 @OdeAndPsyche@aliner https://t.co/MYOKbygRn7