The Other Side of Silence: The Poet at the Limits of LanguageConcerned with the crisis of the poet who finds himself at the limits of language and is impelled to go beyond the words. |
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Page 59
... Perhaps the peasantry , too , is letting its civilization go because it can no longer hold to the memory of its childhood . Autentyzm may have been once beautifully naïve , but it has now learnt the pain of its own sophistication . What ...
... Perhaps the peasantry , too , is letting its civilization go because it can no longer hold to the memory of its childhood . Autentyzm may have been once beautifully naïve , but it has now learnt the pain of its own sophistication . What ...
Page 80
... perhaps his renunciation , ' Enid Starkie observes , ' was not entirely voluntary . . . . Perhaps he could no longer write when he ceased to believe that he saw God face to face.'1 The void opened and he entered it to prove himself ...
... perhaps his renunciation , ' Enid Starkie observes , ' was not entirely voluntary . . . . Perhaps he could no longer write when he ceased to believe that he saw God face to face.'1 The void opened and he entered it to prove himself ...
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... Perhaps in the end there will be no Word . And what is to remain of meaning ? Perhaps some microscopic phonemes of utterance , each recordable , each automatically segregated from its original impulse . As for the range of the poet's ...
... Perhaps in the end there will be no Word . And what is to remain of meaning ? Perhaps some microscopic phonemes of utterance , each recordable , each automatically segregated from its original impulse . As for the range of the poet's ...
Contents
Adolescent Incantations | 1 |
From CounterMagic to Suicide | 17 |
The Mature Activists | 32 |
Copyright | |
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