Reteaching Beauty
I heard David Bazan (of Pedro the Lion fame) speak about Galway Kinnell. I respect Bazan’s songwriting and figured I should read what he was reading. Just a few minutes ago, I finally acted on that notion and I am blown away. I have lots of thoughts and grand notions about things to write and all those are worthless unless I act on them. So I put on some Coma Recovery and started with what Wikipedia mentioned was Kinnell’s most famous poem, “Saint Francis and the Sow.”
This part blew me away and I knew I had to share it:
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
The entire poem can be found here. It is short on words, but long on meaning and inspiration. I look forward to reading more. In fact, I’m off to do just that.
The poetry is nice, but I appreciated the introduction to Coma Recovery!
i just ordered a 3-in-1 book of his. glad you appreciated the new music. there’s a lot of good music on deep elm, especially in the past year.