The State of Moving

Lucia Sellars

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The motion of poetry is like juggling. You pick a set of feelings and images, then raise them into the air, into the randomness of infinity. Then grab two realities and one ethereal substance. Lucia Sellars As the blue planet rotates with a synchronised rhythm amongst the astral bodies of the Milky Way, and beyond; so, our hearts palpit As the blue planet rotates with a synchronised rhythm amongst the astral bodies of the Milky Way, and beyond; so, our hearts palpitate in a rhythmic configuration as we live in a world, that is - to live. That is to say, the action of movement from one step to the other, one second to an hour, is ´key´ in being, who we are and what exists. Newton´s Third Law of Motion states that "for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction". Here, in terms of poetry, the art in itself as art can trigger a reaction in both the source and the receptor to the force. Were the source is the poet and the receptor the reader. The ´movement´ is not only experienced by the receptor but is also part of the creative process of transforming the poets´ imagination into tangible matter. We could say that movement is equivalent to ´a pathway´, a bridge, a tunnel, a river, a vein, that takes you from A to B. Movement is a constant, just like energy constantly transforms itself and never dies. The illusion of stillness, and for things and beings to be at rest, it´s almost as a moment of reflection caught in the intervals of movement itself. For example, the spaces between the steps, the breaths, the thoughts, the drops of rain, of which we become aware of, and self-conscious about. The mountain may seem still, but its essence is the reflection of movement. Stillness is just movement at its slowest, a micro-movement, that nevertheless could produce a considerable large reaction or subsequent force. Poetry moves emotion; emotions are the movement of feelings - to be moved. There are perhaps, two apparent pathways experienced through poetry. First; the pathway that is encountered by the poet itself through the pivotal moment of drifting in thoughts, progressing into the future such as dreams or wishes - the unknown, regressing into the past such as memories and facts - the known or just the present moment. Second; the pathway that is experienced by the reader or listener or viewer; who would be moved into boredom, epiphany, inspiration, understanding, questioning, anger, sadness, gladness, joy, or complete indifference.

Book Details

Publisher: Beir Bua Press
Publish Date: Jan 4th, 2022
Pages: 56
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.27in - 5.83in - 0.13in - 0.19lb
EAN: 9781914972140
Categories: • Women Authors• European - General

About the Author

Sellars, Lucia: - Join thousands of poets and follow us online to ask questions, win books, receive news and chat. www.BeirBuaPress.com https: //twitter.com/beirbuapress https: //www.instagram.com/beirbuapress/ https: //www.facebook.com/beirbuapress https: //www.youtube.com/channel/UCdlyd1MKVthfnqJ__fW99Aw https: //www.tiktok.com/@beirbuapress/video/7096952834100432134?_t=8SG8j5OtZCg&_r=1 Lucia Sellars plays with text, fine art and moving image. Her writing has been published in poetry magazines and anthologies such as Utopia (Hesterglock Press) and Repeal the 8th (Sad Press). Her film work has been selected and screened in many Film Festivals around the world. You can see more of her work at www.luciasellars.org. Praise for the Author "Lucia Sellars' poetry is full of strangenesses, both brittle and fluid. In this book, she has given us a subversive fairytale of the quotidian, an ontological menagerie on the move with errant moons. Here is time, suddenly, in dialogue with the line; there, the space between bread and breath. All in the corners of our asymmetries. The State of Moving is a place of immanence and immediacy, of the body and of language, in their various glittering possibilities and failures." DATABLEED editors; Eleanor Perry and Juha Virtanen. "I really enjoyed reading Lucia's book. From the start "The State of Moving" leads the reader into a mysterious place of atmosphere and illusion. I loved the procession from poetry to poetry prose and back to poetry again...safe in the hands of a truly inspired and skilled writer. Lucia manages to momentarily stop a mad world from spinning and draw you closer to something very beautiful and very serene and wonderfully pure. The State of Moving is a book I will read again and again." Cactus Chilly; artist, poet and videopoetry maker.