Thursday, August 2, 2007

BELLINGHAM SPECTRUM SERIES: ICY DAY IN EARLY SPRING (2007)






















As a result of visiting Whiskey River, I found this.

and this:

‘The question occurs to me -- and quite seriously -- how many shoe soles, how many ox-hide soles Alighieri wore out in the course of his poetic work, wandering about on the goat paths of Italy. The Inferno and especially the Purgatorio glorify the human gait, the measure and rhythm of walking, the foot and its shape. The step, linked to the breathing and saturated with thought: this Dante understands is the beginning of prosody . . . ‘

Osip Mandelstam, The Noises of Time, trans. by Clarence Brown

(from the heading of an interview by Alec Finlay with Thomas A. Clark)

1 comment:

Theresa Williams said...

What a coincidence. I recently purchased a copy of Osip Mandelstom's poetry! I love that quote.