"Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler, " Juan Felipe Herrera
Pg.31
" I look at myself put letters on paper and all I can conjure is the loss of time, the delving into bodiless terms and the thousand layers of empty space around me. The ink is mind. The mind has no barriers. The paper is breath. The word is deep silence."
It seems as though Juan is in a deep meditation when writing poems or anything in particular. "The ink is the mind" relates to the fact that whatever you think is written down with ink. I believe that not only is the ink the mind but also the translator. The ink is responsible for making your thoughts visible to the world. It releases the unknown questions of life, the emotions you feel, and just about anything your mind thinks about. Since the mind has no barriers neither does the ink, so there is no barriers for writing. There are no guidelines or rules to writing. It all simply comes from the complex compositions of unanswered questions, prophecies, and philosophies. The contradictions and simplicity of writing comes from the set mediation of the mind when the paper is a symphony of breaths that let out the thoughts and the words describing them efficiently in silence rather than speech.
"Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler," Juan Felipe Herrera
Pg.42
"Is it the fact that we never did fall, truly alone and shivering, into the furnace of an authentic experience and explosion of community across assigned boundaries and voices, into the colossal and marvelousn thing called change, called reality, this Thing-just-like-this? Wipe my face, squint, make sure I say what I meant."
In this quote, Juan appears to be questioning the genuineness of this modern day world. This world filled with monotonous societies and dream-like lives with the hopes of no consequences. Has human's in the modern day really felt the experience of falling of maybe making a mistake? Society has always been afraid of change, but whats to fear about change? It just throws a curveball at the way things are or have been for the past millenium or so. Why do we fear adjustment, unknown, and difference? The reason why things remain monotonous is because society is afraid of taking chances with the possibility of failing. So society continues to stay unoriginal and remain neglecting diversity.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
NOACVS 1-29
"Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler", Juan Felipe Herrera
Pg.8
"As I walk, I drop my burdens. As I walk, I melt with the snow."
This excerpt from Juan's poem is simple, yet has many meanings and interpretations. As he drops his burdens he melts with the snow. This metaphor relates to when he relieves any stress he goes out and becomes one with nature and finds himself blend in with the simple delicacy of nature. The snow may be a metaphor to his burdens, and instead of having the burdens weighing him down he actually blends with it. This an exceptionally hard characteristic to obtain. Instead of being controled by stress and burdens, he acknowledges these hard times and becomes one with it. Realising what he has to do and maybe making it possible to achieve these hard to reach goals or maybe he just lives in a moment where stress cannot reach.
"Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler", Juan Felipe Herrera
Pg. 27
" I worry about the day having hours, minutes, and seconds."
This quote is particularly significant and displays a great point. It makes me question why does the day have hours, minutes, and seconds? Time is time, right? Well, in the looks of the human eyes time is divided which makes me think about time itself. Time continues on no matter what speed it travels in. So why do we split time into these sections? it's really interesting and in my opinion a very significant quote. In the eyes of time, seconds are hours and minutes and vise versa. We live in it and no matter what we may divide time into, time will still go at its same speed in its own way.
Pg.8
"As I walk, I drop my burdens. As I walk, I melt with the snow."
This excerpt from Juan's poem is simple, yet has many meanings and interpretations. As he drops his burdens he melts with the snow. This metaphor relates to when he relieves any stress he goes out and becomes one with nature and finds himself blend in with the simple delicacy of nature. The snow may be a metaphor to his burdens, and instead of having the burdens weighing him down he actually blends with it. This an exceptionally hard characteristic to obtain. Instead of being controled by stress and burdens, he acknowledges these hard times and becomes one with it. Realising what he has to do and maybe making it possible to achieve these hard to reach goals or maybe he just lives in a moment where stress cannot reach.
"Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler", Juan Felipe Herrera
Pg. 27
" I worry about the day having hours, minutes, and seconds."
This quote is particularly significant and displays a great point. It makes me question why does the day have hours, minutes, and seconds? Time is time, right? Well, in the looks of the human eyes time is divided which makes me think about time itself. Time continues on no matter what speed it travels in. So why do we split time into these sections? it's really interesting and in my opinion a very significant quote. In the eyes of time, seconds are hours and minutes and vise versa. We live in it and no matter what we may divide time into, time will still go at its same speed in its own way.
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