tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9584311039567445262024-03-04T23:20:09.597-08:00POETICS OF HEALINGEleni Stecopouloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052639936469848955noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958431103956744526.post-15580676494841469432013-03-30T01:59:00.000-07:002013-03-30T02:21:12.076-07:00VITAL FORMS: HEALING AND THE ARTS OF CRISIS
intense autobiography.A mutual aid.B, A light touch.C land-escape / soundscape.D a charged space.E building the dream house that is the body, where we live.F self-organization as a devotional act.G poetry as radical organizing.D
What forms do we create in crisis, from crisis? What forms nourish us, heal us, free us to live?
Eleni Stecopouloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052639936469848955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958431103956744526.post-39620042447585456182011-07-29T03:06:00.000-07:002011-07-29T03:06:36.550-07:00Practice ModalitiesTranslation. Making space. Integration. Alternation. Tuning in/out. Turning down/up. Working (in) the dark. Attendance. Nursing. Cultivating the void.Eleni Stecopouloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052639936469848955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958431103956744526.post-23796492314383273862010-05-29T08:00:00.000-07:002011-02-09T22:30:24.486-08:00Impasse / Chronic / Asklepion IIThe 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 Eleni Stecopouloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052639936469848955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958431103956744526.post-49102486554282534962010-05-29T05:08:00.000-07:002010-06-01T09:27:43.921-07:00Poetry as antibiotic, malpractice, and placebo effectI 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 Eleni Stecopouloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052639936469848955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958431103956744526.post-41120491026296495362010-03-18T15:16:00.001-07:002010-05-29T05:16:29.395-07:00Self-reliance and Catharsis Part 2Today 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 Eleni Stecopouloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052639936469848955noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958431103956744526.post-81460995909883166602010-03-18T15:09:00.001-07:002010-05-29T12:29:17.181-07:00Self-reliance and Catharsis
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To ask if poetry can heal is to ask what art can do.
Last spring,
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"Votive relief of Archinos (370 BC) from Tyrea, Argolis (Oropos / Amphiaraus), 0.49 m x 0.55 m. The healing god Asklepios appears to the dreamer to cure him. National Archaeological Museum, Athens, No. 3369. The same person is shown 3 times. First Asklepios personally checks his hand. As a patient on a bed (kline) he is bitten by a snake. Raising his hand he thanks Asklepios for the cure." See Eleni Stecopouloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052639936469848955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-958431103956744526.post-32553844369155202462010-02-20T20:29:00.000-08:002010-02-26T16:32:56.060-08:00The Experiment
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