“All really valid poetry (poetry that is fully alive and asserts its reality by its power to generate imaginative life) is a kind of recovery of paradise…the living line and the generative association, the new sound, the music, the structure are somehow grounded in a renewal of vision and hearing so that he who reads and understands recognizes that here is a new start, a new creation.  Here the world gets another chance.  Here the reader discovers himself getting another chance, another start in life, in hope, in imagination, and why?….probably the language itself is getting another chance, through the innocence, the teaching, the good faith, the honest senses of the workman poet.”    (From Louis Zukofsky – the Paradise Ear, 1966 – Thomas Merton)

To touch the unseen is the brilliance of great poetry.   Poetry rejoins the travelling poet – from imagination to innocence.  Another chance – to teach, to live another day, resplendent with the beauty awash in the brilliance shores our imagination…birthing new seeds of innocence with each step forward….

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