My mood is mildly improved, it seems, with the addition of Wellbutrin to the soup. Now my dilemma is what to do with myself. I have been withdrawing from the world for a year-and-a-half and have lost contact with so many, been unable to write verse and unwilling to play music. On disability I am not allowed to work at a job, and I am physically limited by my chronic back pain. For starters I think I shall try to weed the garden a little each day and continue my daily walks. I feel like an 80-yr-old man inside a 57-yr-old body. Truly, I ache everywhere, esp. from deconditioning, I think, despite my walking. Today I am afflicted with severe sciatica and can barely sit to write this. Oh this mortal coil! Why must it demand so much of us and why is pain so much part of the bargain.
Kathleen told me about experiments in which the brain re-interprets pain as pleasurable. Good luck.
CE
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ReplyDeleteThe Melic Review still exists in archives; it is easy to access, though there are no records of the board. I actually met Alsop in SF and sort of buried the hatchet with him. How can I put this kindly? He was not a _terribly_ literate man, more a poetic dilettante, but he did assemble some worthy troops. I know he passed a couple of years ago. He was a hotelier by profession.
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Good to hear from you, good memories. How fast the web changes! Blogs are already outdated by Twitter. And Twitter could not be more reductionist. Our culture is not headed towards Armageddon, but triviality through minimalism. Not even McLuhan could have envisioned this. If the medium is the message, then we have no patience to pay attention to anything anymore. The whole world has gone ADD.
CE
I assume the one with talent was you? Or did you promote someone else? Natter and Gazebo were lots of fun. I'm deadly curious as to your reference, however. You can always write me privately if you don't want it known here (through my webpage).
ReplyDeleteNow I'm really confused. Was it Land or Eugenia? And book mentions correspondence, some in Polish, but not poems.
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