Apr 30, 2006
It has been six years since Rinty died at the pound in Brighton
Beach.
And now, for the first time, audio of his selected poems is
available to the general public. He would have wanted it this
way. Of course, all sorts of problems remain. His
assertion that he killed JFK still questionable. His
assertion that he was the greatest Hamlet of the twentieth century
not accepted by all.
But what is beyond question is that in these poems he gives us a
glimpse into an extraordinary dog -- a spirit who, in these
querulous times, can, perhaps, lead us to an understanding of what
it really means to live and to hope.
The very last minutes of this reading should be listened to with
especial attention by those of you who are not quite
convinced that the myth of the eternal return of a spirit,
destined to again and again, bark at the dark until the darkness
yields, is merely the embodiment of a vain hope.
See! They return!