8/10/2023 0 Comments Marie louise von franz smiling![]() Your Labrador eases gracefully to the left. Judging by the sound there must be a half dozen of them. You’re determined to touch birds and fruits and beasts and insects carved from marble. Of the Duomo Twain says it has a delusion of frostwork that might vanish with a breath!… The central one of its five great doors is bordered with a bas-relief of birds and fruits and beasts and insects, which have been so ingeniously carved out of the marble that they seem like living creatures– and the figures are so numerous and the design so complex, that one might study it a week without exhausting its interest… Why are you going to the cathedral with a dog? One of your favorite books is Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad which contains passages so beautiful you sometimes recite them aloud. Her mind and body transmit through a harness an omni-directional confidence. She pulls and the pull is strong and steady and you feel like you’re floating. Corky does her thing and relishes her job. Let’s say you’re walking at night to the Duomo with Guiding Eyes “Corky” #2cc92. Montenapoleone street is crowded with what seems like all the people in the world. It’s Milan with thin sidewalks, ugly street crossings and barbaric drivers. Say you’re in Italy in a swirl of motor bikes. I can only offer hints of what a guide dog feels like. But you can’t count on horses to look out for you.”Ī guide dog is not like a horse. Sometimes you and your horse will have a meditative rhythm. “On a horse,” she says, “you’re hyper vigilant, aiming to avoid accidents by controlling your animal. There’s no true equivalent for the experience. People ask: “what’s it like walking with a dog who’s trained to keep you from harm’s way?” Or they say: “I don’t think I could do that.” Prologue (from my Forthcoming Memoir “What a Dog Can Do” ) Author skuusisto Posted on OctoCategories Uncategorized Leave a comment on Notecard: the Best Poetry Reading I’ve Heard in Years…. You can buy Warren-Moore’s new collection here. ![]() Jackie Warren-Moore’s reading will be available shortly on the “Talk About Poetry” podcast series which you can visit at iTunes. Later I joked to a stranger (for it was that kind of reading-people had bumped along the ceilings of their skulls and then they were bumping into one another, loosened with affections) I joked that Jackie Warren-Moore had given everyone a chiropractic adjustment for the soul. Poetry when read aloud by Warren-Moore commands attention, shakes loose the garments of habit, opens the brain, and “lifts” even while her poems are sharp, unsentimental, and hot. ![]() Last night, hearing poet Jackie Warren-Moore read from her new book “Where I Come From” at the Artrage Gallery in Syracuse, New York-the poet reciting to a standing room only crowd of one hundred plus listeners, people who came out on a damp upstate night, who brought entire families, well, I saw how wrong Auden was. Auden famously wrote “poetry makes nothing happen” in his elegy for William Butler Yeats and poets have argued about the assertion ever since. Photo: cover of Jackie Warren-Moore’s collection of poems “Where I Come From” ![]()
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