Don McKay Quotes
born 1942 Canada
Don McKay, CM (born 1942) is a Canadian poet, editor, and educator.
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Phenomenology is one name for the path back from the object to the thing, the counterbalance to the objectification or 'progress'.Poetry is another.
The meditative approach acknowledges that one moment will inevitably lead on to the next. We accept immortality instead of fighting it off.
Admitting you are a nature poet, nowadays, may make you seem something of a fool!
The first indication of one's status as a nature poet is that one does not invoke language right off when talking about poetry.
There's a place
between desire and memory, some back porch
we can neither wish nor recall
We inflict our rage for immortality on things, marooning them on static islands.
The nature poet may (should in fact ), resort to the field guide or library but will keep coming back , figuratively speaking, to the trail - to the grain of experience.
Poets are supremely interested in what language can't do , in order to gesture outside, they use language in a way that flirts with its destruction.
Before the wonderful, terrible wrestling with words and music there is the state of mind I'm calling 'poetic attention' ... a sort of readiness ... a form of knowing.