Collection(s) : Jusqu'à = To
Paru le 05/03/2020 | Broché 118 pages
I found that the challenge of precisely recording my dreams over the past fifteen years prompted the need to find a poetic language adequate to the actual encounters in the dream. (This is very different from making a smooth narrative or interpretation that ends up obscuring the dream). The challenge is to feel the image and then let the words arise from a deep enough place to respond. I found that certain nights or early mornings as I slipped out of dream-mind to record a dream, I felt an impulse to write a poem instead. And that is how Yonder (my first book in this series of works of mine) and now Dream Logic was born. I was still engaged with images moving in me, but now they were entering the space of the page, or more precisely, the space of the iPhone « notes. » Although awake, I was also still writing in the perfume of the dream, and carried along by that feeling, the language arose often full of imagery and eliding any secular logic.
Professor emeritus at Louisiana State University, where he held the Sternberg Honors Chair, Rodger Kamenetz lives in New Orleans where he teaches his original approach to the dream, Natural Dreamwork.
