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A Chapbook of Oriental Poetry and Sumi-e Painting
A Chapbook of Oriental Poetry and Sumi-e Painting
by
Mary Elizabeth Rodning
Charles Bernard Rodning
CHARLES E. TUTTLE COMPANY
Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan
Published by the Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc., of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan, with editorial offices at 2-6 Suido 1-chome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo.
Copyright © 1988 by Charles Bernard Rodning. All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 88-50166
International Standard Book No. 0-8048-1539-9; ISBN 978-1-4629-1779-2 (ebook)
First printing, 1988
Printed in Japan
Contents
We dedicate
this chapbook to our children:
KAI JOHANNES, SOREN PIERS, and
CHRISTOPHER BERNARD RODNING
Élan Vital
Vita Brevis, Ars Longa
Preface
Henri Louis Bergson (1859-1941), a Frenchman and “process” philosopher, published his most famous monograph L’Evolution créatrice [Creative Evolution] in 1907. He cogently argued that the entire evolutionary process should be interpreted as the endurance of an élan vital (vital impulse or force) that is continually developing and generating new forms of life and expression. He argued that evolution is creative, continuous, dynamic, and holistic.
Perhaps, at an aesthetic and artistic level, it is.
Mary Elizabeth Rodning
Charles Bernard Rodning
Acknowledgments
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publications in which some of the poems in this chapbook first appeared: The Red Pagoda, Proof Rock, Orphic Lute, Dragonfly, Modern Haiku, Piedmont Literary Review, and Daring Poetry Quarterly.
The excerpt on page 14 is from Sato Shozo, The Art of Sumi-e, Appreciation, Techniques and Application, Kodansha International Ltd., Tokyo, 1984.
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