Archive for May, 2002

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Stuck in the Middle , Somewhere

Wednesday, May 1st, 2002
I’m about halfway through Philip Whalen’s Overtime and finding more and more ties to those aspects of Beat poetry that I don’t find very endearing. At times I feel like I am trying to read a lifetime of entries for some guy’s blog in a week, including page-long rants in CAPITALS. I MEAN, HOW LONG [...]

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Always Save the Best for Last

Thursday, May 2nd, 2002
There are a number of poems in the last third of Overtime that appealed to me. Most of these discussed the connection between place and inspiration, a subject that has been of particular interest to me lately. In fact, as I was hiking the Columbia Gorge today I was wondering whether it belonged to me [...]

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Wonder Why this Picture Appeals to Me So Much

Friday, May 3rd, 2002
While visiting the Morris Graves’ art exhibition last weekend, I also picked up a book by Gaylen Hansen, an Eastern Washington artist. Since browsing through the book, I’ve been haunted by this particular image, "Three Wolves." It’s not the typical kind of artwork I’m attracted to, but there is something primitive and powerful about it. Perhaps [...]

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I Expected More from Mountains and Rivers

Monday, May 6th, 2002
I’ve been looking forward to reading Mountains and Rivers Without End since I read Dharma Bums several months ago. In fact, much of my motivation for studying the Beat poets was to gain the background needed to fully appreciate this work. I figured this would be the climax of that study, and I could move [...]

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