Thursday, May 10, 2018



the above is a cool video of what happens when two poets meet.  one is an iraqi poet, the other is a swedish poet.  the swedish poet is my hero tomas transtromer.  okay, i have a lot of poet heroes, but transtromer was an early love of mine, and he remains so to this day.  he was an unaffiliated poet, meaning that he was not an academic, or a teacher.  transtromer worked as a psychologist before his stroke.  once, he blew up at a critic who asked him how his job influenced his poetry.  transtromer asked why people didn't ask him how is poetry influenced his work as a psychologist influenced his poetry.  at any rate, i like this photo for the fellowship between these poets.  i like it for the glimpses we have of transtromer's stockholm book-lined flat.  i like it for the fact that tomas transtromer's great love, partner, and co-equal in his life, monika, is the central part of transtromer's life of poetry.  i like the video for the sheer love of poetry.  and i like the video because it features transtromer's beautiful face.  the video is in swedish, arabic and briefly english.  i understand partly one of those languages. 

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