[New-Poetry] Forrest Gander

[DICK at pkmfgvm4.vnet.ibm.com]

Uncomfortable with elevated language and thoughts, fellas?

(Let's see how many cynical responses this brings.)

Richard

Paul Lake wrote:
> If it's not self-serving or predatory, what good is it?
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Jeff Newberry <mailto:jeff.newberry at gmail.com>
>> To: NewPoetry <mailto:new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
>> Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 11:45 AM
>> Subject: [New-Poetry] Forrest Gander
>>
>> I come to consider language by how it uses me.  Poetry offers a
>> transformative summons.  It enacts my own felt need to engage emotional,
>> aesthetic, and intellectual experience in forms neither self-serving nor
>> predatory. [ . . . ] The great capacity of language is to bring us into
>> proximity with one another.  We fill with recognitions.  In my own encounter
>> with poetry, I approach the imagined possibility of an attentive mode of
>> being.  Shifting my perspective, poetry reconstructs my relationship with the
>> world and to the future.  I am torn awake.
>>
>> Forrest Gander, *A Faithful Existence:  Reading Memory and Transcendence*
>> (Shoemaker & Hoard:  2005)
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>> Jeff Newberry

Thanks for piercing Gander9s verbal bubble, Tad.