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Friday Notebook 12.02.11
Kenny G. reading at PresidentObama’s”A Celebration of American Poetry” at the WhiteHouse on May 11, 2011. “Do not attempt to adjustthe picture. We are controllingtransmission.“ I really don’t have notebook entries for this week because I’ve been working on a new class for University of Denver’s University College, a “special topics” course on the poetic image. It’s great fun, but like all online classes, especially new ones, the pre-planning is tough.Read More
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All of It at Once
I mentioned David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous in an earlier post, written when I was about halfway through the book. I still recommend it, even though Abram goes off the rails a bit in the last half. The problem is that he’s looking for “the Big Ah-Hah”—the singular insight that explains everything that counts.Read More
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Friday Notebook 08.12.2011
A number of quotes from David Abram‘s extraordinary The Spell of the Sensuous flowed into my notebook this past week. Here are a few of them: We see the sorcerer being called upon to cure an ailing tribesman of his sleeplessness, or perhaps simply to locate some missing goods; we witness him entering into trance and sending his awareness into other dimensions in search of insight and aid. yet we should not be so ready to interpret these dimensions as “supernatural,” nor to view them as realms entirely “internal” to the personal psyche of the practitioner.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
