have begun writing this book and the first pages of the first chapter are below. I will continue writing the first chapter on this website. You will be reading it as I conceive it in words, often daily, always in the rush of a first draft and the compulsion to tell the story, central to a writer.What I will be telling you is this: the brain is a flower on what we do not know (repeat and repeat this mantra), because the last 100,000 years of human brain evolution has been about consciousness, but the preceding 250,000,000 years has been about subconsciousness - the part of our brain where we have no conscious thought. And this is of vital importance to artists.

EXTRA EXTRA: BRAINS ARE HERE!!! Three zoomable, movable dissections of a real human brain!!! Both creepy and amazing!!! Go up and click on: ‘the brain.’ Or click on continue reading to read The Brains of Poets.

And, for GREAT POETRY BOOKS, check up and to the left: home. Updated August 9, 2008.

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This post is the short notes for the lectures on the human brain that I am giving at universities, writing festivals and annual general meetings of writers organizations in 2008. Check back often for new material as this post is expanding rapidly. (Continue reading…)

This post contains fascinating quotes from artists, writers and commentators and is getting looonger all the time.

(For a briefly-annotated BIBLIOGRAPHY, look up to ‘brains’ and click on Bibliography. I am still crunching through the hardcore science.)

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