choice and Gunn is the "mediator of this
exposition. This is an ASC (altered style of
communication) of the shaman's performance
which Gunn uses, often through rhyme to
accentuate a definitive point. After all, death is
omnipresent "I watch the progress of the plague
(The Missing). Gunn is the definitive existential
shaman-poet.
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Kenneth Rexroth introduced poet Allen
Ginsberg and others at the famous six gallery
meeting. He writes in the tradition of
“contemplative, mystical, visionary, philosophical
and prophetic poets such as Yeats, Lawrence,
Whitman, Blake, Du Fu, Motokiyo and Sappho”
(Reisman, 2012). He deals with themes of "erotic
mysticism" and "Ecstatic transcendence". He is
fundamentally a poet, nevertheless, the shaman
bears an important relation to the aetiology of
poesy. Eliade tells us, in defining the shaman, that
the shaman "may have a guardian spirit present in
the form of an animal or person of another sex".
This forms part of the mystical love presented in
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