Stoic Poetry: The personal journal of Kurt Bell

By Kurt Bell

Stoic Poetry is the personal log of Kurt Bell. Content here is collected from blogs, videos, journals, mail and social media. Content added to this log may be reused with my other work. Entries are chronological. Some entries are addressed to a man named Eric Fong, whose story can be read in my book No More Looking Out for Number One. As Eric can no longer experience life, I therefore use his memory and remembered person as my addressee in the sharing of what I learn and think about. My writing is deeply inspired of the classical Stoic thinkers, as well as American nineteenth-century transcendental and dark-romance authors. I am also deeply enamored of the writings of Dr. Samuel Johnson. My life and writing are also colored with the culture of Japan, where I have spent over half my adult life, and where I expect to one day die. The words I write often find their way back to wildness, where my thinking and footsteps frequently lead, returning home with ideas, stories, and inspiration which I expect could be found nowhere else. I am a man who was once very lost, yet who found himself and his own way forward by virtue of first Going Alone, encountering and reconciling an emptiness I call The Great Indifference, and then collecting and forming The Good Life creed from the best wisdom, experience and example picked up along the way-finding my way at last to peace in the company of my family, and a sober acceptance of life on terms largely outside my understanding or control.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09FS8923F
• ISBN13: 9798470670175
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"