resuming a worthy writing project–doing a Foreward–for a local poet-friend, who needs one for his forthcoming collected poems.
Like other editing and writing jobs I’ve done for other Stroll of Poets members, this one is a continuing story of my long-time editing and writing skills put to use yet again in bringing important people, works, and information to the attention of others and Alberta and poetry readers, in particular.
We each of us have our talents and preferred activities and choices that inform, inspire, and elevate our lives. I will just add that, if one cannot critically think or make distinctions in one’s reading or respond sensitively to words, then one cannot perform such a service to and for others. I remain a happy language dinosaur and poetic thinker, a rareity in our dumbed-down, distracted time.
My mind remains a flame; very much in line with Leonard Cohen’s posthumously released book of poetry just released–The Flame, which is a fine elegiac summing up of a great poet’s career and wisdom. A notable legacy to the world of modern poetry and an unexpected breath of fresh muse-air.