Did I ever tell you how much I like Anne Carson? Have a look at this: I hate traveling … you don’t think until you stumble on something, traveling makes you stumble all the time. Its spooky. Stumbling is good for writing … – Anne Carson (2001) Quad (1981) a television play by Samuel…
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Poetry is a broken language
In poetry, by definition, the making of lines is the breaking of lines (in this way poetry’s deeply unlike prose, the units of which are sentences, defined grammatically by their completeness). Poetic language is language in which meaning refuses to be single-minded: the transitivity of meaning splits, as we mean more than we intend. More…
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