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jim
mc curry, b. 10-3-43 in hawthorne (los angeles) california,
has taught at carl sandburg college since 1980, in poetry &
philosophy;
since recently going online, his links include Big City Lit, Cyber
Oasis,
Drought, and Snow Monkey—ten poems in all, four of which now
appear at the websites of the first two zines just named.
His philosophical interests center on nonduality: especially maha
ati,
dzogchen, or madhyamika. (David Loy's recent study, NONDUALITY,
is a convenient handle.) For example, "the man" includes
Huang-po, Yun-men, Dogen. The trouble with What Is Enlightenment
is the
dubious assumption that we can think our way to enlightenment,
or that there is truly conscious evolution, 'progress,' rather than
recovery of primordial innocence/happiness. In this respect, contrary
to some of his best friends, actually, Jim is somewhat skeptical
of Andrew Cohen's work, and Ken Wilbur's—not to say the work
of Eckhart Tolle, let's say. The literary interests include V. Woolf,
B. Cendrars, Lydia Davis, Knut Hamsun, Carlos Drummond de Andrade,
Casares and Borges, Marquez, Neruda, William Carlos Williams, Jack
Collom. I think that's enough indication. O yes, Pessoa.
Jim has a granfalloon of masks, some of whom are becoming
heteronyms, mebbe: Baron Axel Angst, Ramadooly Foofoo, H. Pumphrey
Smogrove, and the most fully realized of all, Dogwag Bummerstead,
PhD, aka Old Dog.
email: jmccurry@csc.cc.il.us
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