Creativity: Where Poems Begin - Mary Mackey

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Résumé :
Creativity: Where Poems Begin is a meditation on how the sources of creativity emerged from a vast, wordless reality and became available to me as a poet. As such, it is not only a memoir...

Biographie:
Mary Mackey, New York Times best-selling author, became a poet by running high fevers, tramping through tropical jungles, being caught in volcanic eruptions, swarmed by army ants, threatened by poisonous snakes, and reading. She is the author of 14 novels and 8 collections of poetry including THE JAGUARS THAT PROWL OUR DREAMS, winner of the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award for the best book published by a small press....

Sommaire:
it is an exploration of the power and process of becoming a poet. To describe creativity in words is extraordinarily difficult because the moment of creation comes from a place where language does not exist and where the categories that determine what we see, hear, taste, and feel are not immediately present. In our daily lives we tend to live on the surface, unaware of the complexity and richness of what lies below. Poetry creates itself, bubbling up from the depths until it reaches that part of our brains that transforms consciousness into words. This is a journey to that place where poems begin--...