Dear Carolyn and
colleagues,
It's a great pleasure to be
joining you at ACA. This is my first blog entry ever; I expect I'll be your resident Luddite, with all the cachet
that attaches to the post.
Born in Patzcuaro, Mexico
and raised in Montreal, I now write and edit in the San Francisco Bay Area. My working
travels, particularly in West and southern Africa’s marginalized communities, inhabit much of my writing. I hope to work like
thunder during the residency to distill these and similar experiences into new
poems and essays with honest, palpable impact. I can’t imagine a more
galvanizing Master Artist or cohort with whom to focus and grow.
My best to all of you til
we meet,
Nicole Parizeau
Che
fece...il gran rifiuto
C.P. Cavafy
For some people the day comes
when they have to declare the great Yes or the great No. It’s clear at once who has the Yes ready within him; and saying it, he goes forward in honor and self-assurance. He who refuses does not repent. Asked again, he would still say no. Yet that no—the right no— undermines him all his life. |
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From Collected Poems.
Translation Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.
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