Knots
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About this book

The mind is made / of pleasures and / uncertainty, inviting / as it yearns to be both / puzzle and adversity

Full of philosophical digressions, questions, and answers, Knots forms a series of cyclical narrations, a kind of verbal asymmetry or mathematician’s knot, continuously mirroring its ideas and subject matter in a play of language and contrasting points of view.

"Flight of the Mind & Measure of the Stars" sets an itinerary and series of proposed directions for the book, its poems introducing the mind in action, laying down themes of art and memory, reason and belief, intimacy and desire. The final sections are composed of verses that can also be read as parts of two longer, interconnected poems. "The Occupied Mind" enticingly pulls us deeper into philosophical questions and answers about the needs of the mind and the ambiguities of love. The central conceit of "Minutes" offers sixty meditations that are both a measure of time and testimony, as well as a witnessing and confession of what takes place within a changing relationship.

Confronting the riddles and dualities of mind and heart, Knots provokes a layered interplay of reason, paradox, code, and cipher from our daily thinking and feeling. Actively engaging with the spoken strategies of thought, the nature of art, and our always unpredictable, evolving experience of love, we quickly discover the mind and heart are rarely what we expect.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. COPYRIGHT
  3. CONTENTS
  4. KNOT THEORY
  5. IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD
  6. ALLOW A BABBLING BIRD
  7. DEGAS’S PETITE DANSEUSE
  8. MIRROR IMAGE
  9. DESIRE FLYING BY
  10. STARRY NIGHT
  11. CHAGALL, AFTER HALLEY’S COMET
  12. FLAMMARION AT THE EDGE
  13. HALLEY’S COMET AS SEEN BY GIOTTO
  14. EXAGGERATION SWOONS
  15. THE HUNTERS IN THE SNOW
  16. BLACKBIRDS MUST BE FLYING
  17. LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS
  18. ORANGE STILL LIFE
  19. LOOKING FOR LOVE
  20. HESITATION
  21. A BIGGER PICTURE
  22. ONE IS THE OTHER
  23. AUTUMN IN LOVE
  24. LOVERS
  25. WRITING THAT SNOW IS FALLING
  26. THIS REFLECTION OF YOU EMERGES
  27. THERE IS NO THOUGHT IN THINKING
  28. IN SPRING A PROFUSION OF BLACKBIRDS
  29. THE MIND THAT LOVES TO LOOK
  30. THERE’S THE RHAPSODY OF STARS
  31. THE FOOLISH MIND TOSSES
  32. OUR INTIMACY SPRAWLED ACROSS
  33. A MIND WITH A MIND OF ITS OWN
  34. AT THE HEART OF THINGS MEMORY
  35. LIKE NOISE OF THE POURING RIVER
  36. WHEN AROUSED THE AGILE MIND
  37. SO CONSUMED BY EVERYTHING
  38. LOVE LOST IS A SORROW IN THE HEART
  39. THE TRANQUIL MIND IS NO AIRY
  40. THE MIND THAT KNOWS BEST
  41. IF YOUR VOICE BE READY
  42. SOME THINGS WE CAN IMAGINE
  43. THE FEVER IN YOUR MIND EVOLVES
  44. THE CARESS OF THINGS WE THINK
  45. THINKING WHAT THE NIGHT MIGHT
  46. THE CONTRARY MIND ARRIVES
  47. THINKING IS THE DAILY BREATH
  48. A SLOW RESTRAINT GIVES RISE
  49. THE MIND EMPTIED OF ITSELF
  50. FIRST LIGHT IN THE MORNING
  51. THE MIND IS A STUBBORN EMPTINESS
  52. THAT THE LAST OF SNOW IS FALLING
  53. OUR THINKING INHABITS ITS OWN
  54. THE MIND REFLECTS ON ITS APPETITE
  55. EVERY THOUGHT IS WELL EXPRESSED
  56. IMPATIENT MORNING BIRDS LIGHT
  57. A ROWDY CONFUSION RAINS DOWN
  58. THE MIND STRIPPED BARE OF ITSELF
  59. WHAT REMAINS OUTSIDE THE KNOT
  60. WHAT THE WILFUL HEART KNOWS
  61. TRYING NOT TO THINK WILL COMFORT
  62. IN THE MOMENT A THOUGHT FAILS
  63. THE UNRULY MIND STRAYS INTO
  64. THE ATTENTIVE MIND DAILY LOOKS
  65. AS LONG AS THIS PASSING MIND
  66. WHATEVER ELSE THE MIND MIGHT WISH
  67. NOTHING WE KNOW RUNS ON AND ON
  68. IT’S EASY TO FORGET HOW MUCH
  69. BEING BOTH WISHFUL AND MOSTLY
  70. INVITED TO REMEMBER ONE THING
  71. PRIMITIVES OF MEMORY I
  72. PROPHESY
  73. SECONDS
  74. PROTOCOLS
  75. ASYMMETRICAL
  76. DISGUISES
  77. SEPARATIONS
  78. ANSWERS
  79. SUCCESSION
  80. PROPORTIONS
  81. SATURATION
  82. HOURS
  83. PRIMITIVES OF MEMORY II
  84. SYMMETRICAL
  85. DAYS
  86. NEGOTIATION
  87. EMANATION
  88. HYMENEAL
  89. INTIMACY
  90. LIGHTNING
  91. QUIET
  92. GRIEF
  93. ARRIVAL
  94. PLANETARY
  95. PRIMITIVES OF MEMORY III
  96. CONTINUUM
  97. CONFLAGRATION
  98. AFTERLIFE
  99. CAUSE
  100. EFFECT
  101. BEFORE
  102. AFTER
  103. CONVERSATION
  104. UNSPOKEN
  105. UNSAYABLE
  106. PERMUTATIONS
  107. PRIMITIVES OF MEMORY IV
  108. COMBINATIONS
  109. ENDURANCE
  110. AURORA
  111. COMFORTING
  112. MULTITUDE
  113. PATIENCE
  114. PERIPHERY
  115. TRAJECTORY
  116. SLEEPING
  117. RESONANCE
  118. FLYING
  119. PRIMITIVES OF MEMORY V
  120. TRACE
  121. CROSSROADS
  122. QUESTIONS
  123. SCIENCE
  124. QUARREL
  125. SPIRITS
  126. VOICES
  127. DESTINATION
  128. TESTIMONY
  129. PENTIMENTI
  130. MINUTES