Life keeps hurtling forward, bursting forth. It’s spring in California, the jasmine’s come in and the streaky roses. It’s been raining hard all morning; just now it stopped abruptly. Lyn writes in My Life, “she observed that detail minutely, as if it were botanical. As if words could unite an ardent intellect with the external material world.” This is Lyn, vitally observing, drawing it all into relation, the mind and the world, botanical, passionate. Making words hold life, making words as life. “Such that art is inseparable from the search for reality,” she writes.
Robin Blaser: 'The Astonishment Tapes,' Vancouver, Spring 1974
These are the full recordings edited and transcribed by Miriam Nichols for The Astonishment Tapes: Talks on Poetry and Autobiography with Robin Blaser and Friends (University of Alabama Press, 2015). Thanks to Miriam Nichols for making them available on PennSound’s Blaser page.