I ran across this paragraph from Daniela Cascella's book Chimeras in my nobebook just now:
"The fire of the encounter, sparked by a secret perception, moves a desire to write. Echoes of it may be heard in himma, a complex Arabic term translated by Henry Corbin in his stuty of Ibn ‘Arabî as the creative power of the heart. Creative, in the sense that it causes something that is already there to appear. So desire is not in lack, but in attention. It burns, has the ardour which finds knowledge in stillness though unheard and present correspondences, as Roberto Calasso articulates in Ka when he writes of the Vedic bandhu—the nexus, the bond: to know is to connect, and what is known as connection is known forever. Forever heard. In a bell, a voice, a stone, a loss, a chord, a composite, in wild kinship, yearning for the unheard and the implausible, here writing begins, my chimera.
ah! lovely. and good to hear Corbin being mentioned... there’s an interesting history of his influence on esp American poets, Olson, Duncan, even di Prima and many others of that generation and into today. Creeley loved the himma stuff… also Calasso’s ARDOR book is explosive…
I ran across this paragraph from Daniela Cascella's book Chimeras in my nobebook just now:
"The fire of the encounter, sparked by a secret perception, moves a desire to write. Echoes of it may be heard in himma, a complex Arabic term translated by Henry Corbin in his stuty of Ibn ‘Arabî as the creative power of the heart. Creative, in the sense that it causes something that is already there to appear. So desire is not in lack, but in attention. It burns, has the ardour which finds knowledge in stillness though unheard and present correspondences, as Roberto Calasso articulates in Ka when he writes of the Vedic bandhu—the nexus, the bond: to know is to connect, and what is known as connection is known forever. Forever heard. In a bell, a voice, a stone, a loss, a chord, a composite, in wild kinship, yearning for the unheard and the implausible, here writing begins, my chimera.
ah! lovely. and good to hear Corbin being mentioned... there’s an interesting history of his influence on esp American poets, Olson, Duncan, even di Prima and many others of that generation and into today. Creeley loved the himma stuff… also Calasso’s ARDOR book is explosive…
This is very exciting news and after all the travels in high weirdness, there should be much refreshed insight to hand.