{"id":1296,"date":"2009-05-08T08:17:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T12:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2009-05-08T08:17:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T12:17:17","slug":"robin-blaser-1925-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/robin-blaser-1925-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Blaser (1925-2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201c\u2026that was the beginning of my life in poetry \u2014 to find out that poetry had the most extraordinary intelligence, and that it would just wander and and wander and wonder. And so, I love it to this very day. Poetry is the language that one really must finally know \u2014 you know, before you get the hell out of here be sure that you got some poetry because you gonna need it on the other side.\u201d (from \u201cBerkeley Renaissance\u201d talk, November 5, 2008).<\/p>\n

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Robin Blaser (from Kush video)<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n

Robin, Robin, Robin, you flew this earthly coop in spring.<\/p>\n

Trop triste this morning to say more, except add a poem I wrote for Robin some years ago.<\/p>\n

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for Robin Blaser<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

one of the secret sharers in-
\nscribed now into this net,
\nwhich is not the world
\nbut our imaging of it
\nwith a stag\u2019s head, on a dragon
\nas all is
\n\u00e9cart \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9quilibre, hormis le rien. C\u2019est-
\n\u00e0-dire l\u2019identit\u00e9,<\/em>
\nwhich, of course, changes
\nwhile another sailor song
\n\u2013 HERO it says on his cap \u2013
\ngoes up as\/to smoke & yet is a life buoy. maybe
\n\u201cthe bull among the stars\u201d
\n\u2013 it is all about
\n\u201cthe way writing, folded, spreads\u201d
\ninto this, our
\nfin-de-si\u00e8cle identikit<\/p>\n

P.J. \u2014 Oct. 1994<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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