Ben Okri

This is another of these discoveries. This person has been known to so many people and writing for decades winning prizes. Where have I been to only see now? Quotes: “I don’t think the eyes are enough. The eyes reduce reality.” and “Writing and life are not in oppposition but they can obscure each other.”– […]

Poets and Identity

Nick Bruno mentioned being socialized by books, about that disconnect between local language and custom and what we read growing up, to raise ourselves in effectively another idiom of life. Interesting framework. We all have the many dialects of language, one for dealing with professionals or school or business, one a home language. In some […]