A Method for Approaching Bamboo
How the world confronts the artist in the poetry of Basho and WG Sebald
What is nature and how long can it last? What happens when artists try to examine the world they are a part of? What happened when two poets born exactly 400 years apart passed each other on the road? What is a coin-operated buddha-during-enlightenment?
Date: Tuesday 15.3.2011
Venue: Bethnal Green
Time: 7.30 food. 8pm lecture
Speaker: David Henningham
Ephraim Schwartz
There is a reference in Sebald’s “The Emigrants” to his Uncle Adelwarth when living in Kyoto and hearing the cry of the hototogisu. Do you think Sebald was alluding to Basho’s haiku which roughly translated is,
“I am in Kyoto
hearing the cry of the hototogisu–
I yearn for Kyoto”