Eco-Aesthetics and the Poetry of Longing with Rick Jarow
Deconstructing Yourself
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The Cloud of the Monsoon
The monsoon is so intense in india, you can't travel. So that's when you write poetry. The brilliance of the megaduta is, the whole poem, he's talking to the cloud. He's giving exquisite details of the voyage. And just one example, when the cloud comes to kalash. You know, in the himalia, the cloud is instructed to do a puja to shiva, worship shiva with his drum. Well, where is shiva? Whereis the drum? Well, the upraised arms of the trees are shiva's arms. It's excruciating to be so objectifying of nature because it turns us into some kind of
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