More from Gary Snyder (Poetry and the Primitive, originally published in Earth House Hold):
“Outwardly, the equivalent of the unconscious is the wilderness: both of these terms meet, one step further on, as one.”
Birth and death; the alpha and omega: events which shiver our carefully wrought worlds.
Bereavement, experienced as a casting out, a setting adrift in the wilderness.
walkingtalkingwriting: the discipline of practice. Working with and from the wilderness/unconscious; what looks like the age old act of pilgrimage.
On this occasion to the “place it all started” – at least touching the edges, advancing to the threshold of what is called the Middle East: Constantinople, Byzantium, Istanbul – Judaism, Christianity, Islam.
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