In the early days of the pandemic, I watched a lot of time-lapse videos on YouTube. If Covid made familiar things (like groceries and hugs) suddenly strange, watching these videos was like a free fall into strangeness, but one I could control. They gave me the feeling of moving (temporarily) outside time; more precisely, they helped me understand that time and space, which contain us, simultaneously contain things, each with their own rhythms—the world is far vaster than we can perceive. Somehow, I found this consoling!
Katy Didden on "Watching Time-Lapse Videos of Peonies Blooming" |
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"Interview with an Indie Press: Seagull Books"
"Seagull has been dedicated to publishing literature in translation with the conviction that translations build bridges across cultures. This is how we 'disrespect' boundaries. Boundaries that are man-made, nation-created. This has always been the philosophy and politics of what we do."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Christian Stanzione on Lao-tzu's Taoteching
"Whatever is between the subjective and the objective is what we want to experience. Some call this a return to the 'unmediated experience,' others 'theosis,' others 'things-in-themselves,' and others still 'objective properties.' So far as I can tell, Lao-tzu calls this process of moving towards the objective becoming virtuous." |
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