Izdubar

Be careful, you who straddle
science and inner sooth:
giants collapse, learning
that we cannot reach the sun, and
sages are struck blind,
their heads spun full around; they
turn into prescient hermaphrodites
to plumb the Oedipal truths.

Can truth be done, without the sun?
Can you live without its light?
Can you blindly follow Apollo
with Tiresias through each doubt?
Can you live without your cherished truths,
can you learn to live without?

Izdubar (ekphrastic on Carl Jung's Red Book image)

Be careful, you who straddle
science and inner sooth:
giants collapse, learning
that we cannot reach the sun, and
scholars and sages are struck blind,
their heads spun full around; they
turn into prescient hermaphrodites
to plumb the Oedipal truths.

Can truth be done, without the sun?
Can you live without its light?
Can you blindly follow Apollo
with Tiresias through each doubt?
Can you live without your cherished truths,
can you learn to live without?

Poets Respond to Jung's Red Book at the NYU Art and Psyche Conference

Larissa Shmailo, Martine Bellen, Kristen Prevallet
Poets Respond to Carl Jung's Red Book (Liber Novus)
Saturday, July 21 – 8:00  pm
Art and Psyche Conference
NYU Kimmel Center – Rosenthal Pavilion (10th floor)
60 Washington Square South, New York, New York

$15 admission includes conference program for Saturday evening - please see the conference Web site at
http://www.cvent.com/events/art-and-psyche-in-the-city-conference/event-summary-26c0ef5efaa349c78b7e24514805b743.aspx

Poets Respond to Jung's Red Book

Cornelia Street Cafe, October 15, 2011. 6 p.m. Writers Respond to Carl Jung’s The Red Book (Liber Novus) Introduction by Michael Marsman. Joel Allegretti, Charlie Guzman, Dean Kostos, Patty Oliver-Smith, Kristin Prevallet, Lynn Shapiro, Larissa Shmailo, Tod Thilleman & Michael T. Young