Arrangement :: Coolidge

Coolidge undermines "structure" and "composition" to re-enstate "arrangement" containing within itself a "range". Clark Coolidge goes on after a brief mention of the obsession with science fiction he had as a teenager, to speak of art forms and his own coming into art and poetry. He cites a few pages from a particular science fiction novel that engaged him in his works on arrangement. Such is the same as his younger experiences as a six year old at a natural muesuem with his parents. He was witnesses from the perspective of a six year old the molecular arrangement of crystals, quartz, agates, opals and the like. The natural attraction towards rocks correlates with his arrangement philos : one can view the rocks both as in an arrangement at the museum (agates and crystals in one display, rose quartz and serpentine in the other), as well as rocks being actual arrangements of molecules. Perhaps the six year old was not quite understanding this phenomenon but not so undoubtedly that he did not understand the powers of each crystal. He speaks about the rocks all having different energies. i personally hear moonstone is good for divinition and visioning. I would have to hold it and ask it and talk it to mostly to know, this is the intuitive, applicational science of rocks or geology. Coolidge speaks of his own brief sojourn into geology however in the fifties at the time when the science of geology empiricalized, methodized and became mathematical oriented. Let us not digress obsessively.

Spots. Like Sancho Panzo of Castanada, the idea that everyone has a spot but add the s of distinction. We all have our spots. This is the latest word. We all use forms. This is the latest of the forms. Never just one due to Collidge, probably since art and poetry are not fixed or settled. There is more than one device going on here and the work is definately not fixed. I would like to think of the word as moving through time with us all, barreling into space and this is true enough. Literally, and in the most literal sense art and poetry are molecules. These molecules create ink on the page or paint on the canvas. These molecules are always moving! Always changing and proved scientifically. That is well enough. The thought that come from behond the physical manifestation are indeed changing at a faster pace. As fast as the minds themselves can move, as fast as the souls of the creators can evolve (to be dramatic). I have the belief that the word will gain validity as the poet themself grows and evolves through life. Am i out of line? or within many spots?

Coolidge really emphasizes rocks. This rocks. Within an arrangment of rocks is an arrangment of cosmic healing and shamanic powers. This is true because all rocks contain energies inherant to themselves and usually having healing or divinatory powers. Interestingly enough since they are just made of molecules and minerals yet hold these specific energies. Simply put: Rock, arranged of minerals, arranges rock, arranges specific energies as arranged by the arrangement. The grand arrangement. Aren't we all just molecules and atoms bumping into and cobusting with eachother? The flower of life (the image on the Granual Manuel that came out this year) hold within the 5 platonic solids which are the shapes of all life and creation. This shape is said to comprise all in the universe. This may be part of the arrangement. What i like about poetics though is that it does not follow the dogmatism of zen wherein this is enough. These are abstracts. Poetry too is abstract but these writers will bring us down to earth with all this heady material.

The macrocosm and the microcosm are the same here. What is witnessed in the atom or the molecules of the rock is witnessed in the galaxy. This is easy enough to see in the atom and solar system. We learn in science the electrons rotating around the nucleus -- the sun too is a nucleus and our planets, like electrons, rotate the sun. I think Coolidge was talking about this with all the arrangment stuff. Something he said about nature and how it all doesn't make that much sense but it does. Almost like we wouldn't know how to create nature but looking at how it is all arranged clicks for us, makes perfect sense on an energetic and visual/spactial level. Recognition is a word to describe this associate of arrangement. Recognition of nature is easy, its nature and its us.

Backing up a bit to the always moving/ changing/ evolving art piece: these were words of Golston. The molecules of the art work hold a certain energy on the paged that is charged with the artist's intention. Continuously changing throughout time, an energy portal is opened upon starting the work and the work's life goes on into the future. Integrative arrangment as opposed to lesser phenomenons like the separating nature of estrangement. We find good recognition in nature because it is real and perhaps less fulfillment in ephermeral dualities due to the separating nature of their estrangement. Poetry and art usually aim to progressively break down the walls of the separating nature.

The arrangement that is the macro and micro cosm simulates itself through us poets (and conversely we simulate this material as poet selves) through (i belief) an assimilation and recognition of our true nature. Perhaps even a cellular arrangment in some and not in others and thus able to produce works. What i have to say about Ms. Emily D. is the gentle force i have always felt emanating from here work. Looking at letters she wrote only adds to this sense of her gentile nature. She radiates a purity and a sharpness of thought as well. Clearly (ahead of her time) she writes, perceptionally, one step removed from the actual work. This space creates an objectivity to the use of language itself. Very sharp, Ms. Emily D. and soft hearted like a child's purity.

My last comment about Coolidge has to do with the arrangments created in the stories he writes. He tells of Lovelock in his Providence but also how he walked the streets in Providence where Lovelock lives as if the walking of these streets is a sort of matrix or energy "force field" as he described earlier in his experience of "being back in the womb". A neat man all in all really. Enough like a spirit to not be a scientist, enough like a scientist to be a mortal man. So very well all things.