Tuesday, February 10, 2009

News at Eleven: For him, poetry is trying to make invisible

the visible, an effort that is necessary and timeless. According to [Li-young] Lee, "Art is making unconscious things conscious. You're not just 19 or 20-year-olds in Spokane; you have 8,000 years of evolution in your DNA of the suffering and wisdom of the human race. Socrates said this: You're more than the sum of your years. We know truth by measuring it against this unconscious knowledge."

from The Gonzaga Bulletin: Li-young Lee: exterminator, restaurateur and poet

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