Thomas Gardner
Auteur van Poverty Creek Journal (Tupelo Press's Life in Art)
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Thomas Gardner is a musician who is specially interested in the relations between sound art and music, both in terms of the schizophonic splits introduced by electronic media and the new collaborative practices which emerge from them. He is course director of the MA in Sound Arts at the London toon meer College of Communication. Salom Voegelin is an artist and writer engaged in listening and hearing as a sociopolitical practice of sound. She is the author of Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art and Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound. She is a Reader in Sound Arts at the London College of Communication. toon minder
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Poverty Creek Journal (Tupelo Press's Life in Art) door Thomas Gardner
Beautiful, just beautiful. Not just a running book, but a reflection on life.
A beautiful, slim journal that combines the author's passions for running and for words. Presented as a memoir of sorts in 50 brief entries, this book is thick with literary allusions and personal revelations all grounded in the physicality of distance running in the natural setting of Pandapas Pond, my own home trail system. Beautiful, understated, and sublimely rich with imagery, this little book can be breath-taking in its simplicity.
In this slim volume of meditations, we listen as Thomas Gardner interweaves his running, nature, and the loss of his brother with reflections on the writings of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman. and other poets and philosophers. He speaks simply but profoundly, his images of the natural world he encounters on his runs expressed with quiet poetry:
"Bushes and leaves, heavy with frost, bending down to sip, drawing the light, in secret, to their lips."
His mourning is poignant and not self-pitying:
"Now I'm alone, wordless, with the strangest sens of being set apart to mourn or notice. I'm not sure which. The wind above us, moving across space."
He quotes Simone Weil: "Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer." Gardner's Poverty Creek Journal shows this to be true on every page.… (meer)
"Bushes and leaves, heavy with frost, bending down to sip, drawing the light, in secret, to their lips."
His mourning is poignant and not self-pitying:
"Now I'm alone, wordless, with the strangest sens of being set apart to mourn or notice. I'm not sure which. The wind above us, moving across space."
He quotes Simone Weil: "Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer." Gardner's Poverty Creek Journal shows this to be true on every page.… (meer)
What to call these gems, prose-poems, journal entries? Random thoughts while running? They are jewels of language, sensibility, observation and grief. Fifty-two chapters, each a prose poem that is allusive, moving and strong.
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