서량의 詩, 글, 음악/김정기의 글동네/NY, NJ, USA

A pause, a wry smile, a frown, his expressive face echoing his doctor's knowledge, and too, his sensibility as a human being whose work brings him ever so close to the heart of his humanity: we the creature who, through words, asks the philosophical and psychological "whys" of existence. In a sense, the riddles that philosophers and psychologists pose are those that house call..

His Autobiography (New York, 1951) is partly devoted to the medical side of his life and its crucial relation to his poetry--which, like his fiction, draws heavily on his experience as a doctor. His working-class patients, especially the women, whose babies he delivered and whose hardy courage he vastly admired, absorbed his sympathetic if sometimes irritated attention much as..

Forget all rules, forget all restrictions, as to taste, as to what ought to be said, write for the pleasure of it -- whether slowly or fast -- every form of resistance to a complete release should be abandoned. For today we know the meaning of depth, it is a primitive profundity of the personality that must be touched if what we do is to have it. The faculties, untied, proceed..

There were a coupla guys prowling around down here this morning but when they seen me they beat it. - "The Dawn of Another Day" All this-- was for you, old woman. I wanted to write a poem that you would understand . . . . ...(British language) carries over the restricting formulations of that language. They even modify the thought of the language. The forms modify the thought...