Thoughts on linking, etc.

Sharing links is kind of a funny thing. I'm showing you what someone else did so that you can see something that were you interested in the same things as me you would already find. That said, I click on lots of people's links because, I don't come across the same things that they do because I don't follow their web paths during the day.

Ok, so here's the link that I want to share. It's a graphic novelist's rendering of a Kenneth Patchen poem. I can't express the happiness of a day where I accidentally get to read a favorite poet's poem especially in this context. It reminds me of William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience". Also, I noticed today after reading all of his poems available on this website that he uses the word "cave" in other places inexplicably. I think writers sometimes have words or phrases that they use that work for a reader, but also have a deeper meaning for the writer himself. I love referring to "my december heart" because I know that I was born in December but for an unknowing reader it conjers images of a family holiday or bitter cold. Either way it works.
A friend and I experimented with an art project known as altered books. This isn't really my favorite page, but I figured my friend hadn't seen this page so it would be the one that I share-- also the children are looking in a cave. The idea is to create an art in a book using what's in the book that you like and adding whatever you want to it. It takes some convincing to get started on destroying a book like this, but I've read through most of this one while working on it. It's a discard and I'm confident that it was well read in it's former life. It seemed to go along with the link that I wanted to share and gives me some ideas about other things.