Eco-Aesthetics and the Poetry of Longing with Rick Jarow
Deconstructing Yourself
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The Megaduta Is Ru Per Excellence
The aesthetic darthon, if you will, that i think gives it its juice and enduring power. And is that what you mean in the subtitle with this word egoaesthetic? Yes. Because the landscape, which includes birds and animals and humans and mountains and rivers, is part of the aesthetic project. In fact, when i was working on this poem in india, there were people who told me about a professor who used to teach the megaduta at bernars hind university, and was never able to get past the first verse because he'd go into ecstasy. It's not necessarily the language, although knowing the language certainly gives you another dimension. But i think it works
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