El tema central de este Blog es LA FILOSOFÍA DE LA CABAÑA y/o EL REGRESO A LA NATURALEZA o sobre la construcción de un "paradiso perduto" y encontrar un lugar en él. La experiencia de la quietud silenciosa en la contemplación y la conexión entre el corazón y la tierra. La cabaña como objeto y método de pensamiento. Una cabaña para aprender a vivir de nuevo, y como ejemplo de que otras maneras de vivir son posibles sobre la tierra.

jueves, 19 de enero de 2012

La cabaña de Al Purdy, un pequeño susurro en el bosque cerca del lago


Poet Al Purdy built a cabin in Prince Edward County, Ont., where he composed some of his greatest work. - Poet Al Purdy built a cabin in Prince Edward County, Ont., where he composed some of his greatest work. | Dennis Robinson/The Globe and Mail
Poet Al Purdy built a cabin in Prince Edward County, Ont., where he composed some of his greatest work.
Canadian poet AL PURDY wrote most of his best work in a small, self-built A-frame cabin tucked along the shore of Roblin Lake in Prince Edward County. He called this little corner of Ontario's Prince Edward County his 'tangential backyard universe.'
When Purdy died in 2000, he was hailed as one of the greatest Canadian poets of the last century. He had written more than 40 books, won a trophy case of awards, circled the globe. In May, a larger-than-life bronze statue of him was erected in Toronto.
Despite the caviar receptions and gold accolades, he always returned to this jury-rigged little A-frame tacked to a low-slung, leaning bungalow. The whole edifice, he observed, 'bent a little in the wind and dreamt of the trees it came from.' 

"On a green island in Ontario/
I learned about being human/
Built a house and found the woman/
and we shall be there forever/
building a house that is never finished.”

Eurithe Purdy, his widow who lives in Sidney BC, has put the house up for sale and is hoping that the group FRIENDS OF AL PURDY will save it as a writing retreat for budding Canadian authors.

Al Purdy and Margaret Laurence
Al Purdy and Margaret Laurence
Al Purdy and Margaret Laurence were close friends, discussing their writing in letters which were published as A FRIENDSHIP IN LETTERS.
The A-frame house, made out of second-hand lumber and original poetry, became the most famous writer's house in the country. Hundreds of writers found their way to Roblin Lake in Ameliasburg to visit the Purdys and talk about poetry and history while downing beer or wild grape wine. A lot of poetry and prose came out of that hard-to-find place.

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