Yeah, I got some fresh basil and dried lemongrass up in Seoul, and I made some, had Myoung over for dinner last night. It was a good talk and I think a good dinner too. But it’s even better the next day, as with most curries (I find). When it sits at night the flavours blend more deeply and it’s wonderful. Ahhhhhhh. That’s today’s lunch. Woo hoo.
Month: March 2004
Tim Lilburn
There’s one more teacher I forgot to mention in the last Friday Five answer, who had a big influence on me, and that was Tim Lilburn. He’s a Canadian poet with whom I had the priviledge of studying, as well as just an all-around cool guy. He’s very together, frightfully smart and dauntingly well-read. And his poetry is, to me, somehow deeply fragile and absolutely beautiful. Sometimes I long to read his book To The River again, but alas I don’t have my copy here. Tim was always a respectful, generous teacher. He was, in a sense that really does …