Barry Lopez says: real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it. I sense a truth in Lopez’ words, but at the same time I must admit I’m not able to fully comprehend the meaning of his enchanting postulat. But this is what I do know: when in darkness – look for beauty, because beauty can (strange…
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Sliver of Sky
By now, most of my regular readers will know that I’m a great fan of Barry Lopez. His nature-writing is unparalleled. But he is also a master of language in the more personal matters, as when he writes about his own childhood. (The most thin-skinned might choose not to read the following): Sliver of Sky Confronting…
a profound amazement with the world
arctic dreams (cont.) while I’m still reading Barry Lopez, you can have a look at this: Jochen Lempert: Un voyage en Mer du Nord (A Trip to the North Sea); 2007 (detail), Silver gelatin prints, 6 parts Jochen Lempert’s A Trip to the North Sea is composed of 6 parts. The images show a rough sea, with huge waves. The waves foam,…
Arctic Dreams
You know – my fascination for the Arctic is bottomless, so it might not come as a surprise that I’m deeply in love with Barry Lopez‘s wonderful book Arctic Dreams. I read it like a sacred text, word by word, paragraph by paragraph. Someone said: Lopez writes about the visible world with the mind of a…
We stumble – We fall – We fail –
– And so desire to progress, to become better poets, to eradicate a disease, to become better people, to perfect that which is perpetually imperfect. On Fear by Mary Ruefle
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