My dear friend Evseyeva Ekaterina sent me a new photo for our joint poetry-photo project. You can check out the larger version on her personal page I set up (see the menu bar to the right) … and as soon as I have a poem worthy of the photo I will add that too!
“into desire I shall come”
– fragment 96. Sappho. translated by Anne Carson (193)
Desire, like promises, are weighing heavily on me today. Not desire as carnal, but desire as in action. My friend Katya sent me a new photograph this morning. She wrote in her letter:
I made [this photo] […]
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It is nice to have amazing friends. Ekaterina Evseyeva has been sending me photos of her life in Sahka/Yakutsk, in the former Soviet Union. My poem does not do justice to her photography … but as they say, “a photograph is worth a thousand words.”
Perhaps I best write a little faster. […]
My dear friend from Yakuts, Katya, sent me a new photograph she had taken. She called it “Beaurocracy au Bleu” and explained: It’s my friend, not me, but I like the idea … if you feel like beaurocracy can be a devasatatibe thing, emotionless, empty …
photo by Evseyeva Ekaterina, 2006
But not all […]
My friend, Ekaterina Evseyeva, wrote to me recently with a very interesting idea for a literary project.
Ekaterina is a Sakha poet, photographer and scholar living up near the Arctic circle in Siberia. She asked if we could collaborate together; she would send me one of her outstanding photos and I would write a poem […]