An Ear Coming into the World
Footloose in Greenwich Village, 19 years old, I wandered into the 8th St. Bookstore one day and found a book, a poem, just one line of verse that changed my life. The book was Neruda and Vallejo, translated by Robert Bly. The poem was "The Art of Poetry." In one line Neruda imagined himself to be "an ear coming into the world." Ever since, I have imagined myself thus: not a man going blind, but an ear coming into the world. This project is devoted to the marvelous side of that process: listening.

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