Richard Jackson, from “Possibility,” in Heartwall
Zhang Yingnan — Come Full Circle (oil on canvas, 2019)
Zhang Yingnan (Chinese, b. 1981), Come Full Circle, 2019. Oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm.
Umberto Eco, from “Architecture and Memory,” trans. William Weaver, VIA (vol. 8, 1986)
Grouper - Holding
we build our own unfolding
“What interested me was memory itself, the architectures memory constructs, the interpretive act of remembering. There is a passage in a poem by Alfred Corn which says it beautifully:
The idea hard to get in focus is not how things Looked but how the look felt, then—and then, now.
‘How the look felt’ was precisely what I wanted.”
Mark Doty, from “Return to Sender: Memory, Betrayal, and Memoir,” The Writer’s Chronicle (vol. 38, no. 2, October/November 2005)
Sara Pujol Russell, from “Solitude”, translated from Spanish by Noël Valis (via finita–la–commedia)
A First-Rate Man-of-War Driven onto a Reef of Rocks, Floundering in a Gale, George Philip Reinagle (1802-1835)
James Laughlin, from “Those to Come,” Poetry (April 1996)
Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler - The White Balloon
“Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these notes intensify the inner life, which, left unexpressed, slips through your fingers. If only I could find a better kind of journal, humbler, one that would preserve the same thoughts, the same flesh of life, which is worth saving. Moreover the writer invents himself [or herself] as a character in this form. He shapes himself from the shards of the everyday, from the truth of that daily life. Which is also a truth not to be scorned.”
— Anna Kamienska, from “In That Great River: A Notebook,” trans. Clare Kavanaugh, Poetry (June 2010)
Feng Yiming (b. 1965)
Sound of the Valley
Feng Yiming (Chinese, b. 1965), Sound of the Valley, 2009. Scroll - Ink and colour on paper, 68.5 x 137.5 cm.
Carolyn Forché, from The Poet’s Notebook: Excerpts from the Notebooks of 26 American Poets, eds. Stephen Kuusisto, Deborah Tall, & David Weiss (W. W. Norton & Co., 1995) (via memoryslandscape)
Jorge Luis Borges, from “Ars Poetica,” trans. Harold Morland in Dreamtigers
Clive James, ‘The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life,’ The Guardian (26 September 2020)
Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917-2009), Elsie’s House, 1983 . Watercolor and pencil on paper, 20 x 28 in.
Li-Young Lee, from “Become Becoming,” in Behind My Eyes
Do you ever recall these old memories at all? Do I ever cross your mind?