ABSTRACT
This chapter brings together three ‘poet-companions’ – Hélène Cixous as poet thinker, Yves Bonnefoy as poet painter, Ignatius of Loyola as pilgrim poet - who in their reading/writing practices assist the author in illuminating and enacting a poetic spirit of reading and writing as a type of ‘active contemplation’. This is accomplished by elucidating similarities among dissimilarities and by tracing movements from immobility to motion, from death to new life, in the texts of these subjects, who were each led by their reading/writing practices on transformative interior journeys.
