The Art of Losing Edited by: Kevin Young

My love for blogging comes from my need to express and share all the things I love with others. To inspire others as I am inspired and to celebrate the things I love with the importance they deserve.

I went to my public library yesterday with the intention of just returning two VHS tapes my brother and I had rented however I couldn't help myself so I left with two unique books in hand. One is called I Would Be Prettier If... and the other is The Art of Losing and thats the treasure I wanted to mention today. The Art of Losing is a collection of contemporary classical poems written in the twentieth century and after. Now there is one thing I love even more than the actual poems in this book and it is the beautiful introduction written by Kevin Young.

Now I must insert an excerpt of that here:

"I have begun to believe in, and even to preach, a poetry of necessity. This is a recognition not just of necessity of poerty to our lives, but also the fact that necessity is what drives most of the poerty that matters, or that way it matters. The best poems, it seems to me, evince their origins in the need to speak, or to write; to render a complex fate simply: to render chaos as chaos; or to examine the unseen complexities of seemingly simple, even everyday, experience. A poem must be willing to be unwilled, beckoned by need."

I hope you are all enjoying your summer and the wonderful literature of our times.

Sunday, 13 June 2010

I am currently wearing a cute brown dress that pays homage to Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" including the pearl necklace and the matching bracelet. All that I am missing are little white gloves but I feel that would be a bit much for the 80 degree weather.

I am currently listening to Paramore track number 7 on my I Pod, the album is apparently unknown.

I keep thinking about the upcoming year. The job I do not have yet, the car I will eventually buy, the cell phone bill I will have to pay soon, and all the traveling I plan to do. I hope to spend my year off with good friends, interesting jobs, new adventures, and plenty of good stories to tell along the way. It’s amazing to believe that I am finally officially done with high school. I can't even believe it yet. I am overwhelmed and moved to do greatness with this blank canvas that is my future. It’s amazing to be able to feel such freedom and be without restrictions.

I plan to enjoy this summer with every ounce of me and to remember it as best as possible. Never have I realized how quickly time really does pass and how short life is. I know that I am only 18 but it just feels like the beginning of everything. I wonder if, when I look back on this blog I will feel embarrassed by my younger “poetic abstract” self.

“I’ve gone for too long living like I’m not alive, so I’m going to start over tonight” -Miracle (track number 7) By: Paramore

I hope the class of 2010 realizes what amazing opportunities we have all been given and what a wonderful accomplishment we have all achieved. I am filled with such wonderful nervous excited energy and I must capture it so that this wonderful feeling never leaves me.

“When this memory fades I’m going to make sure it’s replaced with chances taken, hope embraced.” –Miracle By: Paramore