Sacred Worlds

The magical world of fairy tales has long been of interest to me; I worked with them quite a bit when I was a high school English teacher, and a few years ago I taught a Grimm Tales class for the…
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For me the writers of the High Modern literary movement (Ezra Pound, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf) are a guilty and maybe not entirely justified pleasure. These works are very difficult to understand. I am not a scholar of…
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In an earlier mythopoetic phase of my life (it was the 80s, Robert Bly was ascendant) my male friends and I were memorizing poems and folk tales. Now in a different context I am once again memorizing poems and folk…
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I love to write about specific poems, specific practices, the concrete realities of daily life. Sometimes I surprise myself by my practical bent. What follows is on the abstract and theoretical side, but as John Lee Hooker said about the…
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As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the centre of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he…
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