I am really glad that I decided to go to the Tabulica Poetica event with poet C.K. Williams. The reading at 7:00PM was extremely nice. C.K. Williams' reading was captivating and I wrote down the titles of many of the poems he read because I liked them so much. The refreshments were nice, too.
One poem of his, "Yours", caught my attention in particular. I admire the way Williams describes certain complex ideas with relatively simple words. For example, in this poem, Williams writes about one's "proudest life thing". This simple phrase embodies something so complex, and it got me thinking: what will my "proudest life thing" be?
Other poems that I enjoyed include: "Love: Beginnings", "This Happened", "Whacked", "A Little Hymn to Time", and "The Sun, the Saint, the Sought."
No, more than impulse or fancy, the girl knows what she's doing,
the girl means something, the girl means to mean,
because, it occurs to her in that instant, that beautiful or not, bright yes or no,
she's not who she is, she's not the person she is, and the reason, she suddenly knows,
is that there's been so much premeditation where she is, so much plotting and planning,
there's hardly a person where she is, or if there is, it's not her, or not wholly her,
it's a self inhabited, lived in by her, and seemingly even as she thinks it
she knows what's been missing: grace, not premeditation but grace,
a kind of being in the world spontaneously, with grace.
-excerpt from "This Happened" by C.K. Williams
I actually ended up liking this Tabula Poetica event so much that I think I will go to more of them :)
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