Loved so many parts of this, J. Lots of thoughts but I’ll stick to the kind of narcissistic comment, which is that I wrote and thought about eros, springtime, and specifically Aquinas’ concepts of love and beauty a few years ago, in a poem that got taken up by Apocalypse Confidential—not realizing Neruda already wrote such a winner-takes-all stunner of line about it. I don’t mean to shamelessly grift and plug my work so much as say namaste, and thank you for giving me a sense of intellectual camaraderie. Also, pagan eros is not repressed but baptized—wow. https://apocalypse-confidential.com/2022/04/27/spinneret-fair-game-forrest-living-proof-could-and-would/
Thank you 🙏 it makes me happy it speaks to you. And thank you for the poems—I had not seen these. I love all of them. The rhythm, the sudden tonal and vantage shifts, lovely images. Really like "estranged by its obligatory bloom, it cudgels from inside itself an ordination" as well as "alone but nonetheless designed to eat."
Loved so many parts of this, J. Lots of thoughts but I’ll stick to the kind of narcissistic comment, which is that I wrote and thought about eros, springtime, and specifically Aquinas’ concepts of love and beauty a few years ago, in a poem that got taken up by Apocalypse Confidential—not realizing Neruda already wrote such a winner-takes-all stunner of line about it. I don’t mean to shamelessly grift and plug my work so much as say namaste, and thank you for giving me a sense of intellectual camaraderie. Also, pagan eros is not repressed but baptized—wow. https://apocalypse-confidential.com/2022/04/27/spinneret-fair-game-forrest-living-proof-could-and-would/
Sorry, suppressed*.
Thank you 🙏 it makes me happy it speaks to you. And thank you for the poems—I had not seen these. I love all of them. The rhythm, the sudden tonal and vantage shifts, lovely images. Really like "estranged by its obligatory bloom, it cudgels from inside itself an ordination" as well as "alone but nonetheless designed to eat."
yes.