Chapter 1. Words -- Chapter 2. Fever -- Chapter 3. Falling -- Chapter 4. The geometry lesson -- Chapter 5. The outsider -- Chapter 6. Up on the Orinoco -- Chapter 7. Unbecoming a poet -- Chapter 8. The jungle -- Chapter 9. Immersion -- Chapter 10. Split ends -- Chapter 11. Shameless hussy -- Chapter 12. Ghost jaguars -- Chapter 13. The mystery of creativity.
Summary:
"'Creativity : Where Poems Begin' is a meditation on how the sources of creativity emerged from a vast, wordless reality and became available to me as a poet. As such, it is not only a memoir ; it is an exploration of the power and process of becoming a poet. To describe creativity in words is extraordinarily difficult because the moment of creation comes from a place where language does not exist and where the categories that determine what we see, hear, taste, and feel are not immediately present. In our daily lives we tend to live on the surface, unaware of the complexity and richness of what lies below. Poetry creates itself, bubbling up from the depths until it reaches that part of our brains that transforms consciousness into words. This is a journey to that place where poems begin."-- Provided by publisher.
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