“In our evolution, we are coming to understand nuances and in betweens are necessary to living a full life,” says poet and painter Wendy Videlock. She quotes F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise.” In this episode, we continue to explore how life itself is the greatest creative process and how we are asked to live and create in the messy middle, and how all of us,
Yes, Wendy. No separating life and art! And today Ilya Kaminsky said that writing, for him, is physical. He rearranges his bookshelves, depending on what he's writing. Mine are arranged by which poets want to be next to which other poets. But Ilya's are arranged by poetic devices, of which each has a bagful, and their books must be moved when one of their poetic devices is more salient to him at that time. His bookshelves look to be in disarray. They are full of life.
Yes, Wendy. No separating life and art! And today Ilya Kaminsky said that writing, for him, is physical. He rearranges his bookshelves, depending on what he's writing. Mine are arranged by which poets want to be next to which other poets. But Ilya's are arranged by poetic devices, of which each has a bagful, and their books must be moved when one of their poetic devices is more salient to him at that time. His bookshelves look to be in disarray. They are full of life.