Poet, Author, Teacher, Natural Dreamworker
It was lovely as always to talk with Susan Larson, New Orleans great advocate for books and authors. In this excerpt we talk about the core of Seeing into the Life of Things. You can listen to the complete show by going to this link: THE READING LIFE | Rodger Kamenetz
A main difference between dreams and poetry is that seeing dream images is involuntary and effortless, while seeing images in words—reading with imagination—requires intention and participation. You can’t speed read poetry. The same is true of memory. I must concentrate to bring images to life. The life that comes to mind this morning is a … Read more
GILGUL 2 1992 In 1992 Time Being Books re-issued an expanded edition, The Missing Jew: New and Selected Poems. I took lines from the old poems and using midrash made new poems from the old. The book now was 101 pages long. About this edition, the great novelist Louise Erdrich was kind enough to write: … Read more