Aritra Sanyal in conversation with Elizabeth Willis

“…within my own work that I like best are places where I experienced a sense of mystery—rather than mastery”   I thought I was reading but suddenly I’m read. Some kind of artist then, painting his targets. Distinct or in- distinct sensation? I prefer clarity when I can afford it. So what if another flower plagiarized the rosary? I’d pick up a dime in private or a quarter in public, mon- ey’s always been ‘dirty’, some kind of death wish. Sure I’d like to own a pet, not own but…

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Dispatches from Hermetic Definition to Hermetic Divagations

  A slowly unfolding rose…yes, that is the cover page of Hermetic Divagations: After H.D., a collection  of poetry by Michael Boughn, an USAmerican/Canadian poet, whom I know through his well-known online journal, ‘Dispatches from the Poetry Wars’, he edits with Kent Johnson. The slowly unfolding rose reminds me the line from Ezra Pound’s Canto 106, “so slow is the rose to open”. Question comes into mind, is it symbolizing Pound’s rose or Rose-Croix, the Christian Symbolism? But “After H.D” in the title of the book turns my attention to Hilda…

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