MirageSome linksMon Aug 27, 2012 08:4263.194.75.2Carriers of the Dream Wheel had an immense effect on me when I was a teen and found it in a bookstore that was going out of business. Used copies are affordable. I think my poetry still bears marks left by this book.
http://www.alibris.com/search/books/qwork/939369/used/Carriers%20of%20the%20Dream%20Wheel%3A%20Contemporary%20Native%20American%20Poetry
It's so interesting that he is concerned he might offend Buddhists. He's probably thinking of Madonna and the controversy surrounding her forays into Kabbalah. Maybe you can explain the difference to him?
Odd recommendation perhaps, or perhaps not:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaddish_and_Other_Poems
Reads like a supernova. He has probably read it, though.
I wonder if perhaps he may be in the situation I was in for many years. I thought I didn't want organized religion because it was too much for me, but then I gradually realized that the opposite was true. My few brushes with it hadn't been too much, they were not enough. They weren't torrid or mystical or liminal or transcendant enough. Nothing against the churches I had visited. They were just very cozy and safe and as a poet I felt like a stranger in those places.
Have you seen Kerouac's haiku? Here is one:
''The windmills/of Oklahoma look/in every direction.''
Yep, he totally ignored rules of haiku, but for me, I think the content is more true to haiku than most American ones are.
- Some links — Mirage, Mon Aug 27 08:42
