T’ang Poetry, Li Ho and the Influence on the French Symbolist Movement

 I realized that the best of what the French Symbolists (like Baudelaire and Rimbaud) had to offer really began with the T’ang period and Poets like Li Ho (Li He) and it was a thousand  years earlier that these early Poets laid the true groundwork for what would become the symbolist movement (which I believe is a monumental and unrivaled period for later poetry).

8/29/2025

Note To Byron Hoot About Poetic Dialog

I had the idea that all of my poems were like a conversation and that I could enter

into any part of it again, making the dialog of nearly 40 years full of new

opportunities. I decided to take old sections of poems and converse with them a bit poetically,

like having a talk or corresponding with myself in my 20’s, 30’s, 40's and now 50's.

The old poems do not need altering in any way, and I try to retain the flow stylistically too.

It is like having a talk with an old friend. There are new poems to be met on the road of now too 

of course, but this dialog with the years seems needed somehow too.

8/7/2025