Literary Vision Quest
01/19/2006 09:36 p.m.
I feel sad that there seem to be so many changes at pathetic. I still consider myself fairly new, so I'm at a loss as to what is going wrong. I love it here. I hope we can stay together in community.

So I found a cool site:

http://www.sonic.net/web/

The Alien Flower.

It has many different parts to the website - including exercises you can try and essays to read. I read an essay by an MFA student that was brilliant and wise and I thought, "my god, was *I* supposed to think that way when *I* was an MFA?"

Charles Johnson wrote,
"have a feeling that the poet's role in society is like that of the tribal shaman, who is able to take the dangerous journey to the other world and bring back knowledge from the place of spirits. Do you see any truth in this?"

I love that idea. I'm going to adopt it as my own as I have often felt that writing has been other-worldly for me. A sort of mysterious vision quest. Perhaps a word quest.

What do you think?


I am currently Bemused
I am listening to my chair creaking