Most of my early professional work was ethnographic, having received doctoral training in anthropology. I later began crafting stories with materials, sounds and light to express what is beyond language. I still work in relationship with people but mostly, nowadays, with plants and soils whose lessons are far worthier of our attention.
The title of our blog, Wilderness of Wish, is from a line in W.H. Auden’s poem, The Cave of Nakedness. This audio clip is his live recording at the Guggenheim on March 12, 1964. Courtesy of the Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1988-2006).
Poem aside. It’s a brilliant line. Reminded us in spirit of a favorite, e.e. cummings.