[W.F. Lantry]

Originally Posted by Andrew Frisardi

-I looked and can't find them now.

I'm still puzzling over the work itself (Thanks for the gloss, Andrew!), but may have hit the jackpot on the poems mentioned. Or, at least, it's a starting point for a search...

http://henrycorbinproject.blogspot.c...an-duncan.html

Thanks,

Bill

[Andrew Frisardi]

Thanks, Bill, the link to the Duncan recordings is priceless--I'll be spending some time there, for sure. The page references to Duncan for the poems I was looking for unfortunately don't work. The blog author confounds two separate titles--Ground Work I: Before the War is a different volume from the one I cited earlier--and neither book has the page number that's listed. But I'll get there eventually. Thanks again for that awesome link.

[R. Nemo Hill]

I'll follow up on the early Duncan, Andrew. The snippets of his bio info I've read on line are quite fascinating as well.

Corbin's Avicenna and the Visionary Recital was an eye-opener for me! If you ever locate those poems, let me know.

As for Love's Body, that slipped through the cracks of my studies as well. The only Norman O. Brown I've read is his Hermes The Thief which, fittingly enough, was stolen from me a while back.

The best thing about reading Hillman is that, due to his generosity to other writers and his empathy with all artists, such study radiates out in all directions and leads to so many other works. I found so many others writers in so many genres through him.

Yes, thanks for the links, Bill.

Nemo

[Cally Conan-Davies]

Andrew,

'Alchemical Blue' is such an important essay for me. Essential. And yes - it's fascinating, what his death has done. It's as if, all my life, I knew he was there and would go on saying the things that need to be said, the things no-one else was saying. Now, as you say, we have come full-circle, or perhaps full-spiral - in the same place but deeper - and now it is up to us to carry the blue flame, the forked-torch, in whatever way we can. I think it might be necessary that we meet one day and have a jolly good talk. The other night, before Hillman died, I read the essay you wrote on David Mason - the man I'm going to marry - and I thought, how interesting! I must talk with Andrew about Dave's work one day! And now - this. I need to come to Italy, for Lawrence and Hillman, and so I'm sure we will find each other there.

Nemo - what you said about the intellectual generosity of Hillman - sending the reader off on paths of their own - is so true, so eloquently said! And you'll find the same generosity in Brown. I can't conceive of my life without 'Love's Body'.

Cally

[Andrew Frisardi]

Cally, that Hillman essay is brilliant. I don't know how I've missed seeing it before this. With all I have read of his work, and I have heard of the essay, too, but somehow missed it until now. Thanks for posting it.

And of course we'll get together when you come to Italy. So much to talk about. A new Careggi villa somewhere in Umbria or Tuscany, with Signor Mason as the Colorado Boccaccio and Hillman, Lawrence, and Ficino crooning the Alchemical Blues.

[Andrew Mandelbaum]

Cally, Nemo, Andrew, Dave, Risa, J, and Bill,
(that list was a clue by itself)
So I have been reading interviews and selections of this fellow all evening. You know when you find a piece of your puzzle in some one else's pocket. Yeah...that feeling. Ordered the Underworld book. Thanks for this thread.
Andrew

[Andrew Mandelbaum]

Dream and the Underworld arrived the same morning as news of the previous night's unimaginable and senseless death of a wonderful teenager close to us. I feel like I poke the Persephone event with sticks on a daily basis but this is has been a true dragging under. I have long know that my broken-faith straddling of meaning/emptiness was an unsustainable contortion. I sense some hope of a footpath in this fellow's work. I would welcome the chance of corresponding a bit about his ideas if anyone felt interested.

[Cally Conan-Davies]

Andrew, this thread is open. I'm listening, following. I have no idea how to guide anyone through Hillman, even though I've read every word. 'The Dream And The Underworld' is amazing, but, like Andrew, it is 'The Myth Of Analysis' that got me. Eros, Psyche, and that journey she makes and its outcome. Human nature. 'Healing Fiction' is another, as is 'Suicide and the Soul'.

The thread is open. We can talk here, endlessly. If you'd like any more info about any of this, PM me.

Cally

[Andrew Mandelbaum]

Thanks Cally. I will get a hold of the Myth of Analysis and whatever else I find and come back as soon as I can make a bit of sense out of my own Hillman reading.

It was just a rough week and I was drowning a bit. Not much sense in me starting chatter until I am farther along.

[R. Nemo Hill]

Re-Visioning Psychology was what I started out with.

Nemo