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ANDREW SCHELLING / A BIOREGIONAL POETRY CLASS AT NAROPA ecopoetics 1 I could swim around in Andrew Schelling’s essay for quite awhile. Let me just take a couple of quotes out of context to...
Category: Ecopoetics
grasshopper cracking
Grasshopper cracking is metabolic cactus spine drama. Yet chance operation goes completely neglected by pundits of nature. Why? Fusty neo-Victorian beliefs concerning the person? Fear our little house on the prairie has nobody home?...
eco note
I got a personal handwritten note from an Accounting Professor at the University of Oregon thanking me for my donation. Not that interesting, except for the heading: June 29, 2010 7:43 am Overcast I...
three way link
ANDREW SCHELLING / A BIOREGIONAL POETRY CLASS AT NAROPA ecopoetics 1 In 1997 I received a Nathan Cummings Contemplative Fellowship … to design and teach at The Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) an undergraduate...
contours multiplied
It occurred to me that: free writing is tracing the contours of mental activity with a pen and in an even more invisible fashion, mindfulness is tracing the contours of mental activity with awareness...
contours of the natural surface
Apropos of tracing the edges of cuts in leaves, I came across the following description of Clarice Lispector’s painting in Why This World, chapter 42 “The Thing Itself:” (quoting Clarice)”…profundity is not the only...
slugliness
JULIE PATTON / SLUG ART ecopoetics 1 I’m reading Why This World, a Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser. One of the main themes of the book is Clarice’s search for God in...