POETICS OF HEALING

Practice Modalities

2011-07-29T03:06:00.000-07:00

Translation. Making space. Integration. Alternation. Tuning in/out. Turning down/up. Working (in) the dark. Attendance. Nursing. Cultivating the void.

Impasse / Chronic / Asklepion II

2010-05-29T08:00:00.000-07:00

The one who could not be healed would go to sleep in the abaton "not to be stepped into" "impassable" to dream of Asklepios who would reveal the remedy or the dream itself could cure I side with opacity because it's in the dark something changes and we never see it Etel Adnan from Beirut writes that she has never seen war They say healing needs witnesses a patient, reintegration into

Poetry as antibiotic, malpractice, and placebo effect

2010-05-29T05:08:00.000-07:00

I came across this article by John Lundberg in the venerable HuffPo recently: Can Poetry Heal? I found these lines particularly ironic and troubling (in that they seek to make poetry untroubled and untroubling): "Longo also speaks to a third potential benefit of writing poetry: that writing a poem can help to clear up one's emotions on a complex issue." "Experts are careful to stress that

Self-reliance and Catharsis Part 2

2010-03-18T15:16:00.001-07:00

Today I'm no longer interested in healing as some triumphal return, a rise to the surface to tell one’s story. And I only am escaped alone to tell thee... It may still be the book one makes out of the body’s passion—I haven’t let go of that yet. But to treat it as a triumph—or failure—of the individual, a journey of self-transformation or self-invention, is to remain captive to a peculiarly

Self-reliance and Catharsis

2010-03-18T15:09:00.001-07:00