[New-Poetry] Books a poet should own...

[Anny Ballardini]

I added both, thank you James
http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=printpage&pid=1289
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  Wisdom & Metaphor
  by Jan Zwicky
  Gaspereau Press (Canada)
  http://www.gaspereau.com/1894031784.shtml

  A large compendium of quotes by poets and philosophers and mathematicians
  centering on the topic of metaphor.  Zwicky responds to their assertions with answers
  of her own. If you can find it, buy her earlier book _Lyric Philosophy_, as well. Which 
  has even more illustrations and musical notation than are in this book. Wisdom &
  Metaphor will remind you of deep beauty of math...which most of us lost sight of somewhere 
  before our finals in Algebra II. Two quotes fromt her book...

  The phenomenological power of both metaphor and thisness derives from an awareness of an extreme tension between being and time. Thisness is the lyric comprehension of this tension; an instant of time opens to embrace the resonance of all that is; time is present, but suspended—held in balance. Metaphor, by contrast, is a from of domestic understanding: wholeness overrides morality, but does not erase it. The distinction of things remains the foundation of their resonant connexion. In metaphor, gestalts glitter: those inflected by being and those inflected by time, flashing back and forth over the hinge of what is common. 
  –Jan Zwicky, Wisdom and Metaphor, #67

  To defend poetry means to defend a fundamental gift of human nature,
  that is, our capacity...to experience astonishment and to stop still in
  that astonishment for an extended moment or two.

  --Adam Zagajewski, Another Beauty, translated by Clare Cavenaugh

  Anny, that would be a good one for "Why poetry exists?" quote category. 

  Finnegan


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