Comments on: Adrian Castro, ‘Handling Destiny’ (Coffee House Press, 2009) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/adrian-castro-handling-destiny-coffee-house-press-2009/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Barbara Jane Reyes http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/adrian-castro-handling-destiny-coffee-house-press-2009/#comment-25669 Barbara Jane Reyes Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:59:13 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5519#comment-25669 Terreson, belated appreciation for your comment. Glad to see your curiosity led you to find out more about Castro's poetry and Babalawo traditions. You are right about commonalities to many others; that is one of many ways into his wonderful work. Thanks again. Terreson, belated appreciation for your comment. Glad to see your curiosity led you to find out more about Castro’s poetry and Babalawo traditions. You are right about commonalities to many others; that is one of many ways into his wonderful work. Thanks again.
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]]> By: Terreson http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/adrian-castro-handling-destiny-coffee-house-press-2009/#comment-25596 Terreson Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:38:15 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5519#comment-25596 Fascinating. Thanks Barbara Jane Reyes. Curiousity led me here http://labloga.blogspot.com/2008/07/adrian-castro-as-spirit-moves-him.html where I get a fair sampler of Castro's procedure and aesthetic sense. And also here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babalawo where I get an intro to the Orisa tradition from which he draws his mytho-poeic, and spiritually based, language. I am struck by certain similarities to what there is to find in ancient Irish and Welsh traditions. I also find I have no difficulty following his mytho-poeic, associative, and symbolic way of thinking. It rather runs parallel to the White Goddess thesis as R. Graves developed it or imagined it, depending upon your point of view. Anyway, it is all fertile ground. (As an aside the Wiki article mentions that women were allowed into the priesthood only after '69. Me thinks there is an all too familiar story there.) I think Castro is right, by the way. The dynamic story of humanity is the story of migration and the tension it produces between displacement and the need for belonging. Thanks again. Terreson Fascinating. Thanks Barbara Jane Reyes. Curiousity led me here http://labloga.blogspot.com/2008/07/adrian-castro-as-spirit-moves-him.html where I get a fair sampler of Castro’s procedure and aesthetic sense. And also here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babalawo where I get an intro to the Orisa tradition from which he draws his mytho-poeic, and spiritually based, language. I am struck by certain similarities to what there is to find in ancient Irish and Welsh traditions. I also find I have no difficulty following his mytho-poeic, associative, and symbolic way of thinking. It rather runs parallel to the White Goddess thesis as R. Graves developed it or imagined it, depending upon your point of view. Anyway, it is all fertile ground. (As an aside the Wiki article mentions that women were allowed into the priesthood only after ’69. Me thinks there is an all too familiar story there.)

I think Castro is right, by the way. The dynamic story of humanity is the story of migration and the tension it produces between displacement and the need for belonging. Thanks again.

Terreson
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