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Franciscan Notes
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| The book begins with deaths: chiefly the poet's mother's, but also those of cherished mentors and friends. The rest has to do with living beyond those deaths and approaching old age. There is a pilgrimage to Japan and India, inspired by Williamson's practice of Zen meditation, and placed under the aegis of a saying from the great Rinzai Zen monastery at Daitoku-ji: "If you cannot endure this moment, what can you endure?" Enduring the public moment, as it appears to a somewhat disgruntled aging man, is also a theme in the first part of the book.
The latter half of the book comprises the Italian poems. Williamson began visiting Tuscany regularly in 2000, and eventually became a property owner there. The poems set in Italy dwell on an encounter with an older culture, and its potential to encourage both resignation and mysticism, with moods that persist from the tutelary geniuses of two great Italian poets: the nihilistic Leopardi and the tentatively mystical Montale. Gathering around those experiences multiple lore from music, philosophy and science, it becomes an extended meditation on mental suffering, glimpses of the ecstatic, and the double nature of our life, "skull / and beatific face," with "the immortal recombinants of fire and water." |
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