Like his activities in other forms
of the arts, Rudhyar's poetry is a
spontaneous, very personal—yet
transpersonal—expression, unburdened
by prolonged technical training or
conditioning; and his poems unselfconsciously
exemplify his philosophy and demonstrate
his overall attitude to life.
In his 1983 autobiography,
Rudhyar says this about his poetry,
"The crises of growth, which in my
life took the form of the breakdowns
of my first and second marriages, released
inner realizations and a power of creative
formation which in turn took form in
a number of poems. The process of poetic
formulation that is an integral and
significant part of my total destiny
had started many years before when
I deliberately severed all connections
with my ancestral and cultural past.
I believe this process should be understood
in a way that most present day poetry
seems to make irrelevant and fanciful.
I have often stated that my music and
paintings should be approached in a
non-traditional way. By dealing more
specifically with my poetry, further
light may be shed on the all-inclusive
character of the creative impulses
that have been operating, and still
operate, in my life. To do this seems
important today, if only to help people
who read my published poetry not to
approach it with false or inadequate
expectations."
The following is quoted from the Foreword
of Of Vibrancy and Peace (1967),
an anthology of poems from 1916 to 1962:
"My poetry was not written with the
view of conforming to a literary tradition
and to fit into esthetically appreciable
forms. It is the quite spontaneous
expression of my inner life; it was
written in most cases of time of great
stress, of challenging, perhaps devastating
emotional and/or spiritual experiences.
It was meant to express and to communicate
the fervor and intensity of what psychologists
now often call peak
experiences."
Read
more about Rudhyar's poetry,
from his autobiography, in Concerning
My Poetry and Its Place in My Creative
Activity.
From The
Essential Rudhyar: An Outline And
An Evocation (1983) by Leyla
Rudhyar Hill.
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