So true. Some friends and I were sitting around this evening talking about teachers we have known. Not all doctors are healers and not all teachers are masters. I am lucky to have a master poet for a teacher now. I wish I had Paul for a teacher—even for a part of a semester. I was fortunate to have known him for a short time as a friend. His influence will last me a lifetime. Thanks for sharing your experience.
i was in paul's class in 84 or 85 and in that first class period he recited a short poem called 'deer heart' by some ancient poet and i knew in an instant here was a man with a spiritual commitment to this art (poetry) which i had had at that time in fact it was that instant of knowledge that made me realize that learning from spiritual masters is different from learning in books and you don't need to be there a semester to gain the required knowledge just a moment or two suffices sometimes
@parinda27 So true. Some friends and I were sitting around this evening talking about teachers we have known. Not all doctors are healers and not all teachers are masters. I am lucky to have a master poet for a teacher now. I wish I had Paul for a teacher—even for a part of a semester. I was fortunate to have known him for a short time as a friend. His influence will last me a lifetime. Thanks for sharing your experience.
So awesome to see this video. I took classes from Professor Carroll at UIC from 1989-1991 and he wrote my recommendation to Trinity College, Dublin (I got in!). What a wonderful blast from the past. This brings me back to his wonderful 8 a.m. classes I never missed. He has had a huge influence in my life.
Thanks for the praise for the "Conversation." I am preparing commentary for a more complete whole interview elsewhere on my YouTube site. I enjoyed your poem and felt the influence of Paul's work throughout. I have taken to the art myself of late--due in no small part to his inspiration. Keep me posted as to the progress of your Paul Carroll Blog. I would like to contribute.
Thank you for your insightful and inclusive write up as the introduction to this posting; it really frames things that other poets who wrote of my father completely lacked and missed; he was able to be a mentor and he did love literature and anyone who wrote from a human place; nice, too that you include a personal biographical point about June Leaf and nice that you post this video. He would have thanked you himself; as do I now. Paldies as the Latvijians say.
I regret I could not put the whole untruncated video of your dad up on the Internet. I do have a VHS copy of the whole interview that JoAnn Baumgartner produced.
Paul has had a profound influence on my life, first through his poems and later through the face to face connection we formed around the making of JoAnns video.
Thanks, parinda27,
So true. Some friends and I were sitting around this evening talking about teachers we have known. Not all doctors are healers and not all teachers are masters. I am lucky to have a master poet for a teacher now. I wish I had Paul for a teacher—even for a part of a semester. I was fortunate to have known him for a short time as a friend. His influence will last me a lifetime. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Peace,
Bob Boldt
bboldt2 1 year ago
i was in paul's class in 84 or 85 and in that first class period he recited a short poem called 'deer heart' by some ancient poet and i knew in an instant here was a man with a spiritual commitment to this art (poetry) which i had had at that time in fact it was that instant of knowledge that made me realize that learning from spiritual masters is different from learning in books and you don't need to be there a semester to gain the required knowledge just a moment or two suffices sometimes
parinda27 1 year ago
@parinda27 So true. Some friends and I were sitting around this evening talking about teachers we have known. Not all doctors are healers and not all teachers are masters. I am lucky to have a master poet for a teacher now. I wish I had Paul for a teacher—even for a part of a semester. I was fortunate to have known him for a short time as a friend. His influence will last me a lifetime. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Peace,
Bob Boldt
bboldt2 1 year ago
So awesome to see this video. I took classes from Professor Carroll at UIC from 1989-1991 and he wrote my recommendation to Trinity College, Dublin (I got in!). What a wonderful blast from the past. This brings me back to his wonderful 8 a.m. classes I never missed. He has had a huge influence in my life.
cnolan1972 1 year ago
Thanks for the praise for the "Conversation." I am preparing commentary for a more complete whole interview elsewhere on my YouTube site. I enjoyed your poem and felt the influence of Paul's work throughout. I have taken to the art myself of late--due in no small part to his inspiration. Keep me posted as to the progress of your Paul Carroll Blog. I would like to contribute.
Peace
Bob Boldt deboldt(at)gmail.com
bboldt2 1 year ago
I took classes from Carroll in the 60s at the U of I. He was some poet, and a great teacher. I wrote a poem to thank him for what he taught me.
jzguzlowski 1 year ago
Thank you for your insightful and inclusive write up as the introduction to this posting; it really frames things that other poets who wrote of my father completely lacked and missed; he was able to be a mentor and he did love literature and anyone who wrote from a human place; nice, too that you include a personal biographical point about June Leaf and nice that you post this video. He would have thanked you himself; as do I now. Paldies as the Latvijians say.
skaistagalda 2 years ago
I presume you are Luke.
I regret I could not put the whole untruncated video of your dad up on the Internet. I do have a VHS copy of the whole interview that JoAnn Baumgartner produced.
Paul has had a profound influence on my life, first through his poems and later through the face to face connection we formed around the making of JoAnns video.
Peace,
Bob Boldt
bboldt2 2 years ago