Preface
This book was born during my stay at Memorial University of Newfoundland. The Master of Philosophy degree allowed me to develop my ideas far enough to be academically coherent. I would like to thank greatly Dr. Janna Rosales whose patience and kindness allowed me to present this book in an artistic format considering the necessary balance to be accepted scholarly. Also, I am very grateful with Dr. Jennifer Dyer because her trust and guidance also made possible this book. Conceptually, I am deeply indebted to Dr. Bradley because his ninth thesis from his unpublished paper Realism, Constructivism, and Naturalism: Why We Need Speculative Philosophy informed my notion of being. I couldn’t have done this book in this manner without Dr. Bradley’s theses. For him, unconditional communication and love are deeply related to the notion of creatively being. For me too being is love, but how can you accept this point of view? How can you see yourself as being poetry, i.e. being through the fullest love?
This book will show a pathway toward that unconditional love, but it will not assure you that being is love. This study is made through the social sciences through an autoethnography, i.e. a novel that draws from my life experiences and academic voices to show you why I see myself as being poetry. My intention is to leave you with an open possibility for your life, could I be poetry too? Could I be an expression of a boundless creative love? Can the poet be the poem? Can the poem be the poet? Can the world be the poem? Can you be the poem? I say, yes. I am not the first. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer has said it. Walt Whitman has also said it in relation to the Earth. These are two examples, but there are many more who might not be famous and still know that they are poetry. I join myself with these voices, but I further the notion of being poetry by establishing it in relation to love. Why? For me, being poetry means seeing and feeling through the depth of love.
If you have always been interested in knowing if you could be a poem, this book would benefit you. If you have ever wondered if the underlying structure of being is love, this book might also bring you some insights that could further your questioning. If you have never thought about the possibility of being poetry, but have always considered yourself a person that values love, truth, and even beauty above all, this book could also be for you.
However if you are searching for your typical academic book that will convince you through pure argumentation without artistic inputs, then this book is not for you. My book, although academic, contains poetry, photographs, and even a novel as an autoethnography. I will indeed provide you with my conceptual framework, so if you are curious about ways to bend the limits of academic through the arts then this book could be a good fit for you because I cite sources that support my methodology. This book is different from your average academic discourse because, as an artist, I do not want to convince you by merely being logical. I want to convince you because you can experience yourself as being poetry through intersubjectivity, i.e. you become empathic enough to the point that you can become me, yes, poetry. If I do convince you, it will be because it is a fact that I see myself as poetry, and if I can see myself as poetry, you can do too through intersubjectivity after having read my book and even my artwork.
You should also know that this book is the beginning of a journey to describe ourselves as being poetry and love. I have continued and will continue to work so you can see through your own vision what I can clearly see… We are poetry, and as we are being poetry, we are creatively loving.
So if after reading this book you are still not really seeing why we are poetry, please go to http://beingpoetry.com to read further. If you prefer art, you might be interested further in my artistic expressions at the following site http://linaru.com.
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