Tag: creativity

• * stepping into the river with Charles Simic

  The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who’s to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket. Charles Simic Since I quoted the man last week in regards to the prose poem, I thought I would share some of Charles Simic’s […]

  José Angel Araguz

  May 17, 2013

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• * one year later & three chinese poets

  [the lyric poet] always says “I” and sings us through the full chromatic scale of his passions and desires – (Nietzche) Think what you will of Nietzche, he goes overlooked as a poet – and I don’t mean his actual poems but more the spirit with which he approached his writing.  Like the quote above […]

  José Angel Araguz

  April 12, 2013

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