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

[Elaine Brown]

bad bad bob !


On 10/21/06 2:13 PM, "Bob Grumman" <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:

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>> Wisdom & Metaphor
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>> by Jan Zwicky
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>> Gaspereau Press (Canada)
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>> http://www.gaspereau.com/1894031784.shtml
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>> A large compendium of quotes by poets and philosophers and  mathematicians
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>> centering on the topic of metaphor.  Zwicky responds to their  assertions
>> with answers
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>> of her own. If you can find it, buy her earlier book _Lyric  Philosophy_, as
>> well. Which 
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>> has even more illustrations and musical notation than are in this  book.
>> Wisdom &
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>> Metaphor will remind you of deep beauty of math...which most of  us lost
>> sight of somewhere
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>> before our finals in Algebra II. Two quotes fromt her book...
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>> 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.
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>> ­Jan Zwicky, Wisdom and Metaphor, #67
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>> To defend poetry means to defend a fundamental gift of human nature,
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>> that is, our capacity...to experience astonishment and to stop still  in
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>> that astonishment for an extended moment or two.
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>> --Adam Zagajewski, Another Beauty, translated by Clare Cavenaugh
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>> Anny, that would be a good one for "Why poetry exists?" quote  category.
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>> Finnegan
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>> I agree.  The bullshit component of both is close to  99%.
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>> bad Bob 
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