Jan 26, 2011
Earth play "The Dire and Ever Circling Wolves", from the 2005 album Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method.
Stephen Hatton writes:
For Hölderlin, thunderstorms are the dwelling place of man. Though lightning splits the elements, thunder gathers them. Thunder tunes things in relation to man, and concentrates the ancient and the new in man on earth. The poet must hear the concealed to reveal it. Heard from the perspective of earth, the task of the poet is to stand on earth and absorb thunder, thus enabling to speak of the ancient, the concealed, and the elemental (Stephen B. Hatton, "Elemental Sonority: Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Thunder", in Janus Head (v7: #2, Winter 2004), p 299).