Tagged with Poetics

"Howl" is about family, friends, lovers, nations that go mad, or die, or try to.  Allen lost his mother, but found Jack Kerouac and friends. The magnitude of the loss meant that the find couldn't simply be an inspired group of intimates; it had to give birth to something, it had to change the world.  In a sense, it did. (more)

I invoke "wild mind" and the "crazy wisdom" of Buddhist Tantra.  Wild mind is elegantly self-disciplined and like wilderness, it is without a management plan.  As Gary Snyder notes, "The practice of the wild inspires an etiquette of freedom. It is actually beautiful to care for things." I feel it in my larynx -- in my thrust toward language -- it is beautiful to care for things. (more)