The Holy Forest: Collected Poems by Robin Blaser

Author:Robin Blaser
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Poetry
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006-01-01T18:30:00+00:00

widely translated, world napkin, And perhaps, after all, there is no secret. We incline to think that the problem of the Universe is like the Freemason's mighty secret, so terrible to all children. It turns out, at last, to consist in a triangle, a mallet, and an apron,-nothing more! We incline to think that God cannot explain His own secrets, and that He would like a little information upon certain points Himself. We mortals astonish Him as much as He us. But it is this Being of the matter; there lies the knot with which we choke ourselves. As soon as you say Me, a God, a Nature, so soon you jump off from your stool and hang from the beam. Yes, that word is the hangman. Take God out of the dictionary, and you would have Him in the street.

Melville to Hawthorne, 185 i

streets of saltimbancos, dressed as imperial rulers, as moral principles, as philosophical totalities-gods and heaps-

verticals and horizontals of days and nights, of thought's body and passion's method-twine to delight and dissonance-now I wake, now I lay me down to sleep-where insomnia begins at age 4, saying it-

Olson once said he wished he could learn how to handle verticals from Boulez-horizontals being what we do everyday toward horizons-he had in mind the Second Piano Sonata, the eruptive violence of them-in conversation with Beethoven's Hammerklavier-a rage of rhythm-the rhythmic variations of the notes playing the astonishment of BACH's belief-counterpoints of monads becoming nomads-of rhythm is image/of image is knowing/of knowing there is/a construct-his dream

of compossibility

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