After a diet of philosophical and technical reading for many months, this week I’ve been giving my left hemisphere a break and feeding the right with some poetry. I’m reading simultaneously Richard Holmes Coleridge volume 1, Adam Nicolson The Making of Poetry (an exploratory recount of the collaboration between poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge), and The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda.
I have to say the insights i’m gaining after heavy dos…