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

[Elaine Brown]

Thanks for posting these! I¹ve enjoyed these quotes before and unfortunately
forgotten about them.

Thank you for the reminder.


On 10/21/06 12:23 PM, "JforJames at aol.com" <JforJames at aol.com> wrote:

> 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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