To Day : Poems and Poetics

by Fuchs-Knill, Margo

• ISBN13: 9780968533048
• ISBN10: 0968533043
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-23
• Publisher: Egs Pr

Summary

At once subtle, luxurious, inquisitive, and philosophic, Margo Fuchs-Knill offers her poetry and thoughts on the makings of poetics in these writingsall in her distinctive Swiss-American pitch. Her poetic voice weaves its singsong way through topics as wide-ranging as nature, political views, imagination, spiritual musings, and love with the strongest thematic thread on the nature of time and how people choose to live in it, through it, and despite it. Also explored is her philosophical take on the how and why of poetry,-answering such questions as Is poetry peaceful? and Is the writing of poetry an act of peace?

Author Biography

Margo Fuchs-Knill is the dean of the master program, division of expressive arts therapy at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. She is the author of Season-ing Life and a regular contributor to POIESIS: A Journal of the Arts & Communication.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Poetry	p. 5
And Nevertheless
Bent	p. 8
Behold	p. 9
This day, like everyday	p. 10
What's a life worth living?	p. 11
Again and again	p. 12
Hold	p. 13
With every good-bye	p. 14
With separation we grow	p. 15
Poetry connects	p. 16
Imagine all words	p. 17
Breaking in	p. 18
The imaginative faculty	p. 19
Speak To Us
And so it happened that we demanded	p. 22
Please let me, let us	p. 23
Praise me, now	p. 24
A response to Nelson Mandela	p. 25
Stepping on	p. 26
The calling	p. 28
Ah, and the poem	p. 29
Day Poems
This rising day	p. 32
This day, like every day	p. 33
Counted days, for sure	p. 34
Sometimes	p. 35
Spring/ing	p. 36
Let's say	p. 37
The moon courting up there	p. 38
Not that I would write about	p. 39
A hand full of hope	p. 40
Every morning	p. 41
One morning, when you wake up	p. 42
Time is a granted luxury	p. 43
For The Living Is Taciturn
The days are counted in their unmeasurable perpetuation	p. 46
Longing	p. 48
What do we do with strange things	p. 49
When we die	p. 50
To the living and the dead	p. 51
Let's go on	p. 52
And now	p. 53
Let it be so	p. 54
One more time and again	p. 55
All right	p. 56
Afterward	p. 57
What is it that leaks	p. 58
To day	p. 59
Life's embrace	p. 60
Poetics	p. 61
Poetry As an Act of Peace: an Outlook From the Unthinkable
Introduction	p. 63
What is poetry?	p. 67
Poetry-what for?	p. 69
Poetry: The Other Manner of Thinking	p. 73
Schaffhausen-February 26, 2003	p. 74
Word Kick-Offs	p. 77
Schaffhausen-February 28, 2003	p. 78
In-Moment	p. 81
Schaffhausen-March 3, 2003	p. 82
The Depth of Deep	p. 85
Schaffhausen-March 4, 2003	p. 86
An Outlook at the Surface	p. 89
Schaffhausen-March 5, 2003	p. 90
Schaffhausen-March 30, 2003	p. 91
Concluding Remarks	p. 93
Endnotes and Acknowledgements	p. 94
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