Ars Poetica and Human Becoming
Dear Friends and Family,
April is Poetry Month. I thought we might explore this art form by shining a philosophical light on it. What if we look at poetry through the lens of human becoming? What if we wonder together about the human mode of being (i.e. the structure of consciousness1) from whence poetry comes? We might even wonder what our inner poetics are up to in these present uncertain times, giving to poetry a broader meaning than creative human expression . . . or giving to creative human expression a broader meaning as a mode of life.
As an aside, and yet not so, I have been refreshing our look here at Beyond the Comfort Zone. In place of what was at the top of your email before, the butterfly in flight, a fine symbol no doubt (or maybe it was a moth seeking a flame—these two images one and the same: two sides of the fine cloth that parts life from death . . . and so, the mythic appraisal of the butterfly who, in yearning to be, rose from the caterpillar’s tomb, the cocoon, but o…