Since Federico Garcia Lorca reconstituted the meaning of duende, defining it for a new generation of artists, the word no longer fills the mind with goblins.<\/p>\n
In \u201cPlay and Theory of the Duende,\u201d Garcia Lorca states, \u201cthe duende is a power and not a behavior, it is a struggle and not a concept . . . it is not a matter of ability, but of real live form; of blood; of ancient culture; of creative action.\u201d He defines it by defining how it feels, how it possess the artist and moves the feet, strangles the voice, and boils the blood. He defines duende with duende, because it can never be truly explained, merely attempted, which is why Cezanne painted the same mountain. Why Emily Dickinson never got enough of death. Why art always needs to become something else.<\/p>\n
Duende is in the practice of art, the passion of art. It\u2019s greater than the muse or the angel. According to Garica Lorca, duende joins us at the pit, at the edge of death long after the muse and the angel have abandoned us. Duende escorts us to that end where it\u2019s possible to conceive our truest art. You know duende when you feel it, when you embody it.<\/p>\n
If duende does not exist, we do not exist. Our awareness of it, strengthens our ability to feel it move within us, to know our highest expression of self. Duende is our communion with the universe. In Jane Hirshfield\u2019s \u201cPoetry and the Mind of Concentration,\u201d we hear, \u201ctime slows and extends, and a person\u2019s every movement and decision seem to partake of perfection . . . the experience of concentration may be quietly physical\u2013a simple, unexpected sense of deep accord between yourself and everything.\u201d For the writer, duende exists in the inspiration of words, in the need of words. It is the secret language of our souls.<\/p>\n
It is always with everything, with duende, that writers live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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