m. d.
My blogs
- To the Russian Poets
- DON'T STORM THE CASTLE: A LITERARY BLOG
- The Marvelous Floating Bookshop And Virtual Ice Cream Emporium
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | poet |
| Location | Soli Deo gloria, United States |
| Introduction | All I want to say is I am very concerned about what I perceive as the devaluation of the pure lyric voice in world poetry and I pray for its renewal and enhancement throughout the world because I believe its loss is also in a deep sense the loss of the human soul to darkness and to senseless information. I also believe in the principles of artistic devotion as enumerated by Kandinsky and I completely believe in the reality of Divine Inspiration in the creative process (I mean, God, not something vague) and in the co-creation of art with God, the artist or poet and the "cloud of witnesses" (those who have laid the groundwork and have preceded us)having an equal confluence and influence. I believe in all art as a consoling, beautiful, truthful manifestation, not as degradation, obscenity or propaganda. I believe in it as the link between Heaven and Earth. |
| Interests | PHOTO CREDIT: Mary Angela Douglas ========================================================== my interests: POETRY POETRY POETRY spoken like music and with real feeling - not spoken apologetically or as if you are reading from a newspaper |
| Favorite Movies | Edward Scissorhands, Everything by Andrei Tarkovsky, Peter Ibetsson, The Enchanted Cottage, anything by Peter Weir, especially, The Last Wave, anything with Katharine Hepburn, Colleen Dewhurst, George C. Scott, Andy Garcia, James Earl Jones, Sidney Poitier, Alan Arkin, Mandy Patinkin FOR SHEER DELICACY, LIGHT AND BEAUTY; PIPER LAURIE, A CINEMATIC POET. |
| Favorite Music | Beethoven Quartets, Anything interpreted by Vladimir Ashkenazy, Evgeny Kissin, Van Cliburn, Debussy, Ravel, the violin as interpreted by Oistrakh and Isaac Stern, anything by Joan Baez (the premier singer, in my opinion, Scarlatti, CHOPIN above all others) |
| Favorite Books | Green Mansions: W.H. Hudson, Peter Ibetsson: George Du Maurier, The Keeper of the Antiquities: Dumbrovsky, The Faculty of Useless Knowledge: Dumbrovsky, The Fairytales of Hans Christian Anderson, Poetry of: Rainer Maria Rilke, William Butler Yeats, Federico Garcia Lorca, John Gould Fletcher, e.e. cummings, Henry Treece, Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelstam, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Walter De La Mare, William Blake, William Shakespeare, Dante, Emily Dickinson, Conrad Aiken, Dylan Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Vasyl Stus, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell, Stanley Kunitz, Muriel Rukeyser and countless others, and of the countless especially dear John Keats. Also, 10 Characters by Ilya Kabakov, Sculpting in Time, Andrei Tarkovsky, and the pure idea of the fairy tale period. Do I have to say The Wizard of Oz? Yes. And as a corollary, RAY BRADBURY! Proust's descriptions of spring and music (Remembrance of Things Past); James Joyce's descriptions of epiphany (In Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)Above all else, The King James Version (original) of the Holy Bible, especially the Psalms and the book of John. Read John 14 and Psalm 23, and 91 whenever you are troubled - especially consoling to read out loud like a prayer. |
If you could peer far enough into the night sky, you'd see a star in any direction you looked. When would you sleep?
a poet sleeps until he or she is waken up by a new poem.