living literature. November 2010.
*** Poetry is an act of disobedience
Claudia Masin interview about his book: Wholeness. LV
: The fullness compared to the anguish of the ephemeral, against the fragile, fleeting face. It occurs to me that this is an important point in your book The fullness.
CM: I think much of the book can be summarized in the phrase "I want to be. I would be well able to bear the full / without long for abundance. " Supporting this point, by definition fleeting, when something reaches its maximum intensity ... suffering or pleasure. No association with pleasurable fullness necessarily. Able to withstand the most intense moment comes, knowing that after the decline. As well they understood the Chinese seem thousands of years and yet we westerners. And we take a lot of work everyday. Able to think things like that and not as a duality, an element that is opposed to another: the fullness and emptiness. But think of it as a continuum.
LV: In the fullness of the void is something
CM: It's the germ of that emptiness, that void seed, which is already there.
LV: How did the desire to play?
CM: The desire has to do with the full, with some unable to hold all the time, impossible to be desiring all the time. There is also a decline that is hard to bear.
LV: When you love there is also some sympathy in that love?
CM: I think that compassion is closely linked to love. It also has to do with empathy. There is a poem that arose from a question: if it is possible to enter a person's childhood, to have known laque as an adult. The poem says that, I do not know if possible. But it seems desirable to the possibility of entering another person's sensitivity, to enter the world see how that person has to do with love and empathy. They have to do with compassion: Feeling with others, feel what the other is feeling.
LV: What love offers a respite from the pain of the world?
CM: So says the epigraph that opens the book with which I completely agree. Love as a repair, as a refuge. I wish I could be reduced that. Love is also open, suffering and helplessness. The book talks about several issues. The fullness had come originally from the reading of "Forest of the Night" by Djuna Barnes. Each of the poems had the voice of one of the stars, the two lovers, who are Robin and Nora. Until I realized that these two voices were one, which talks about what love is for people: the place of respite and place of the disaster. Before I had thought of as two dissociated voices. Nora had the voice of love and what destroys and abandons and Robin as a place of refuge and shelter. LV
: The fullness and the word, how bound? CM
: Poetry is to say that there is no full language. We have fragments, approaches, rodeos. Like love, perhaps, is to say, that there is no full merger, but those moments of enlightenment and encounter. The poetic word is essentially disobedience, came to resist the totalizing discourses, neoliberal, capitalist accumulation speaking, the amount of "fill," not to leave empty spaces. Writing poetry is an act of disobedience that challenges the completeness. And subject to the completeness leads to a state of subjection to inhuman and external mandates.
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