tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post7671455730708368022..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Joseph Ceravolo: EternityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-29738240030688322952013-07-30T01:27:43.181-07:002013-07-30T01:27:43.181-07:00Eternity sparkles like Derek's bald spot glimm...Eternity sparkles like Derek's bald spot glimmering in the Eternal Sunshine of New York's Spotless Mind.<br /><br />The celestial clockmaker knew what was going on up there in the Big Mondo Sky Dome when the pure abstraction of Derek's stats was invented.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP222Lvbuuo" rel="nofollow">Take that magic number, 3000... was it hits or girlfriends, again?</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-17767345595985502742013-07-29T17:53:35.445-07:002013-07-29T17:53:35.445-07:00Hey Tom, I wonder if the Yanks will win tomorrow? ...Hey Tom, I wonder if the Yanks will win tomorrow? I wonder if Derek will hit another home run? I wonder if PRISM got every word? My son saw a tee shirt that said “USA, Back to Back World War Champions.” I’ll try to write a poem like Joe Ceravolo might have written. I wonder if Eternity sparkles.<br /><br />Love,<br /><br />HarrisUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15235344408979987198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-6257119951519555622013-07-29T03:19:58.635-07:002013-07-29T03:19:58.635-07:00"Ceravolo forever" -- hear, hear!
"..."Ceravolo forever" -- hear, hear!<br /><br />"...always starts with the things themselves and lets them communicate. The most spiritually aware and sensuous of poets." <br /><br />As for catching up, a few steps:<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/joseph-ceravolo-beginner-method.html" rel="nofollow">Joseph Ceravolo: Beginner Method</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/joseph-ceravolo-cat-of-eternity.html" rel="nofollow">Joseph Ceravolo: Cat of Eternity</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/joseph-ceravolo-dusk.html" rel="nofollow">Joseph Ceravolo: Dusk</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/joseph-ceravolo-lighthouse.html" rel="nofollow">Joseph Ceravolo: Lighthouse</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/joseph-ceravolo-may.html" rel="nofollow">Joseph Ceravolo: May</a><br /><br />Harris, beautiful that the intense secret faiths of lonesome childish private creation be recalled.<br /><br />Joe's poems wonderfully always kept that child's own-world quality, a naïvete that has grown up yet doesn't know about faux, has somehow not lost the original direct unmediated experiencing of the world (and words) as realities existing prior to all irony or attitude. <br /><br />I had that same early sketchpad and crayon subject matter, yes. The green enchanted diamond. Along with the weaponry and explosions, 1940s wartime heroic subject matter evoked by night fears of phantom invasions in the dark, across unseen oceans, dive bombers plunging down black air shafts & c... Kids never knew what was going on back then, knowledge (such as it was) consisted of the warped gleanings gathered from listening behind doors or down dark tenement hallways. A lot of that imagery came back (unexpected, unwanted) after 9/11... still confused, as in the beginning.<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/silhouettes-in-shade.html" rel="nofollow">Silhouettes in the Shade</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-80305283427393494242013-07-28T23:52:51.768-07:002013-07-28T23:52:51.768-07:00Ceravolo forever.Ceravolo forever.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-63564301681021616652013-07-28T17:39:59.121-07:002013-07-28T17:39:59.121-07:00WOW! I had not heard of Cervalo either. WOW! I had not heard of Cervalo either. Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38129161647840329412013-07-28T10:34:37.807-07:002013-07-28T10:34:37.807-07:00Ceravolo never gives way to cheap allegories, alwa...Ceravolo never gives way to cheap allegories, always starts with the things themselves and lets them communicate. The most spiritually aware and sensuous of poets. <br /><br />"Later, pain and wonderment made eternity more apparent".<br /><br />Thank you, Harris. That eternity might be felt (not virtual or hypertextual), there's such hope in this.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-9549994112583172013-07-28T07:29:57.239-07:002013-07-28T07:29:57.239-07:00Tom,
"the invisible is not obscure or myster...Tom,<br /><br />"the invisible is not obscure or mysterious, it is transparent..."<br /><br />7.28<br /><br />light coming into fog against invisible<br />ridge, drop falling from leaf on branch<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> coordinate, with respect to<br /> rotations of it seems<br /><br /> from in first place, second<br /> term, more after some<br /><br />fog against invisible shoulder of ridge,<br />fog on horizon to the left of the point<br />STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31774167395771542832013-07-28T06:28:05.588-07:002013-07-28T06:28:05.588-07:00Tom – good (for me) to see a new post from you, to...Tom – good (for me) to see a new post from you, to selfishly know you are there, in time, pondering eternity.<br /><br />When I was a child, perhaps like you, I drew the baseball players, their motions, fields, bats, gloves, the ball itself. I spent hours in my room drawing. What was outside was too horrifying. I stayed in the room attempting to evoke depth from the plane of the paper. <br /><br />The ballfields and the players still soothe me. I especially love the geometry of the stadium, the arc of the throw, the sailing sphere. <br /><br />I also, like Joe, loved the guns, holsters, cartridge belts, bullets. I drew them too. Also jets, tanks, bazookas, machine guns and soldier-players. I was an American post-war artist boy. The war machines, even footage of nuclear test clouds still fill me with awe, an awful kind of beauty. <br /><br />These Islamic designs are from a time when the scimitar, a curved weapon was the one of the lethal choices of warriors. “The kilij is a scimitar used by the Turks and the Ottoman Empire; it appeared around the 15th century. The kilij is a unique kind of scimitar that has a slight taper down the straight of the blade until the last third of the sword, when it angles sharply and becomes deeper. After the First Barbary War, a bejeweled kilij was presented to the commanding Marine officer, thus beginning the tradition of granting, to all United States Marine Corps officers, the right to carry the ceremonial weapon as part of that tradition.” (Wikipedia – under scimitar)<br /> <br />Now I have boxed myself into a tiny corner of time (a subset of eternity?) where the Four Horsemen gather, connected to this computer machine. Earlier, it informed me that Monsanto may or may not have a working relationship with Blackwater. <br /><br />I was glad then to discover your “'exteriorized representations of abstract, even mystical, thought'.” I am grateful for this work you do. <br /><br />Outside the dome of the sky works its morning magic. Last night the sunset was exquisite and disorderly. <br /><br />When I was a child I never thought of eternity. I saw beauty. Beauty sustained me when I left the drawing board. Later, pain and wonderment made eternity more apparent. Here, in time, one hopes to be heroic. That would be ideal. That would approach the boundlessness of eternity. <br /><br />HarrisUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15235344408979987198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-4249714442620832072013-07-28T05:55:29.343-07:002013-07-28T05:55:29.343-07:00How had I never heard of Ceravolo until this year?...How had I never heard of Ceravolo until this year? Is there a particular volume I should start with to catch the bug?Jeff Popovichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05055291723949815305noreply@blogger.com