Creation is a poem Poem, which is “creation” in Greek and thus St. Paul calls God’s Creation, POIEMA, like a poem by Homer, Padre Angel used to say. Each thing is like a “like” Like a “like” in a Huidobro poem. The entire cosmos copulation. And each thing is word, word of love. — Ernesto Cardenal Cosmic Canticle, Cantiga 2 “The Word” Vincente Huidobro (1893-1948) was a Chilean poet. He founded a school of poetry called “Creacionismo” or “creationism” “Creacionismo was the apotheosis for Huidobro, a space where the poet could assume a role as the divine. In his poem …
Before beginning only Awonawilaona existed, no one else with him in the vast space of time but the black darkness on all sides in the space of time. And he brought forth his thought into space… Nothing existed, neither did nothingness exist, Between day and night there was no frontier. Everything at the beginning was hidden… — Ernesto Cardenal Cosmic Canticle, Cantiga 1 I am struck with the creation stories that begin with a gesture of art. The song, the word, the sculpted gesture. In the Midewiwin tradition of the Ojibway, we are taught that the first sound was the …
Acouple of little things I have found today: los otros, les autres, d e e p w e b The coolest blogroll in the universe. So you want to write a fugue? Text by Glenn Gould: But never be clever for the sake of being clever, For a canon in inversion is a dangerous diversion. And a bit of augmentation is a serious temptation, While a stretto diminution is an obvious solution, While a stretto, stretto, stretto diminution is a very, very obvious solution. So never be clever for the sake of being clever, for the sake of showing off. …