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It was one of those times when you learn a new word, or rediscover an old one, and then it pops up everywhere. For example, one night you might use an astringent to tone facial tissue, and then you read the word astringent applied to a character in a poem.
While reading It Is Daylight by [...]

Now  that we’re on spring break, ten beautiful days, I have some spare time to update this blog. Don’t imagine me living it up in Cancún, however. I’ll be at home, catching up on laundry and writing a paper. I never was one of those Daytona Beach types, anyway. When I was studying Spanish in [...]

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My dreams have been highly charged with symbolic images lately, more than likely due to my reading of Man and His Symbols, by Jung et al. I’ve scribbled a few haphazard images down in my journal, but there’s been little free time to think about what the dreams might mean. Instead, I’ve been reading poetry, [...]

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The professor of my contemporary poetry course has given us each a chance to present a book published within the last ten years. My presentation was over Slamming Open the Door, (Alice James Books, 2009) by Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno. We discussed the book mostly in terms of its overall effect as a project. The topic is [...]

We’re just finishing Pathways to Bliss in my poetry course, and then we’re going to read the first two essays from Man and His Symbols, a collection of essays edited by Carl Jung for the everyday person. I’m ready to take on Jung after Campbell’s excellent recap  of modern psychology in Pathways to Bliss, from [...]

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In one of my poetry classes we’re reading about the link between myth making and poetry. Currently we’re studying An open Life by Joseph Campbell, and next we’re reading Pathways to Bliss.
Campbell has a lot to say about the role of poets in today’s society. He discusses how the old myths and [...]

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This article illustrates the importance of language in all spheres of life. How we create metaphor is a metaphor itself for the process of invention and discovery. We are either looking backward to name what we want to create for the future, or we look at the world around us and make analogies. This [...]