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: I've known the name Henri Bergson since the 1950s thanks to my mother's religious and philosophical leanings as reflected in her books which I never read but whose titles I sued to stare at with a little curiosity and much more bemusement. SOME OF BERGSON : Part of this creative advance into novelty, this utilization of ideas, philosophies and concepts from the past and bringing them to bear on the present in order to structure the future, a process that is at the base of my poetry, has been the incorporation of some of the work of the philosopher Henri Bergson into my own poetic opus and direction. Bergson emphasizes the positive power of time, the fluid continuum of intensity, the flow of reason across the brain and world as a source of creative invention, as a matrix for the affirmation of the rich, multi-levelled embodiment that characterizes our existence as human beings. There is a continuum of creative genetic energy in life. It is like a current going from germ to germ through the medium of a developed organism. I see my poetry as a monitor of my continuous progress indefinitely pursued and my inevitable regress, for life is either progress or regress. There is no standing still, although it often appears that way. -Ron Price with thanks to M. Hansen, “Becoming as Creative Involution? Contextualizing Deleuze and Guallari’s Biphilosophy” Internet Article, 3 January 2001. : This is a dance of the most disperate, : spontaneity paired with receptivity, : autonomy for myself and openness : toward the world: an elan vital1 : separateness and communication, : segregation from the whole : and integration with it, : a complex functional system : providing my inner autonomy, : a great variety of inner states, : an active sensitivity exposed, : heterogeneity and individuality, : the more isolated, the more related, : continually in the process of constructing itself. : 1 a concept from Henri Bergson : Ron Price : 3 January 2001

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