A little stunned to hear of the passing of Tomaz Salamun, a great world poet from Slovenia. He was a good friend of Almost Islands, and was an invited presenter at our 2010 dialogues in Delhi. Ill never forget an intense and raw sort-of confessional session where he, Joy Goswami and Charu Nivedita opened up in turn. Arvind Mehrotra was also there--the two had been close friends at Iowa in the early 70s and were meeting after a gap of decades. Tomaz was beautiful man, poet to the core, always generous and full (really) of universal love. Hed been a child prodigy at the piano, but gave it up abruptly when his father told him he would have to give up his rowing lessons--which he also liked. Later, poetry came to him as a kind of visitation. He told us crazy stories about his encounters with it--how, once, hed been on a kind of relentless poetry high, writing for three days straight without stopping, poem after poem, before the inevitable crash came. He was given to constant reverie and epiphanies. He was very adamant and insistent about writing a poetry that existed as if in its own domain, beyond logic, beyond reason. So now his poems will live on, without a doubt, but not the startling and freeing ways in which he embodied it. https://youtube/watch?v=uQkh0VQaUKo
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 15:45:17 +0000
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