Comments for Via Negativa

Comment on How to find things by Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:49:40 +0000

Thanks. I’ve always loved that word (as well as what it describes).

Comment on How to find things by Deb

Deb — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:25:34 +0000

Loving this series; want to steal many lines. Cheered by your use of “borborygmus.”

Comment on Words on the Street by Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:51:38 +0000

Thanks! I kind of think my spring wildflower poems are successful for the same reason: they speak truth to flower.

Comment on How to breathe by Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:50:07 +0000

Hi Albert – I’m glad you’re liking the series. Any and all interpretations are welcome, but I personally reserve judgement on the wisdom or lack thereof in this instruction manual, which sometimes feels like an imperfect translation from another language.

Comment on Words on the Street by Dick

Dick — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:07:28 +0000

Good to have both Words on the Street and the Manual telling it like it is.

Comment on The Jewel in the Fruit by Albert B. Casuga

Albert B. Casuga — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:10:54 +0000

Correction: http://ambitsgambit.blogspot.com/2012/02/counterpoise.html
Glad to be back, Luisa and Dave!

Comment on The Jewel in the Fruit by Albert B. Casuga

Albert B. Casuga — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:08:25 +0000

My response to Luisa’s poem, “A Counterpoise”, is posted in my literary blog, http://ambitsgambit.blogspot.com/2011/02/counterpoise.html and also in the Facebook.

Comment on How to breathe by Albert B. Casuga

Albert B. Casuga — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:52:17 +0000

“The lungs are nothing but wings that have lost their way.” If you consider that light/energy and air are what essentially make our corporeal component, this line is, indeed, the peak of the metaphysical understanding of man. Following the logical conclusion of the Platonic formula for life (we are spirits trapped in ephemeral vessels), breath as we know it are the wings to the ultimate genesis, and the air beneath the wings that make us ascend Icarus-like. Thus, your line as humour but poetic nonetheless, aspires to fulfill its ontological (defining being) and epistemological (discovering knowledge) functions. And I am not even being hyperbolic. I like the series, Dave.

Comment on How to breathe by marly youmans

marly youmans — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:42:28 +0000

Somebody playful!

Comment on How to breathe by Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:45:46 +0000

Yes, I’m not dismissing the idea — though I’m resisting the notion that I should be the one to provide such illustrations! I’d gladly collaborate with an illustrator.