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

[Anny Ballardini]

Re: [New-Poetry] Books a poet should own...I totally agree Elaine, we should put him in the corner...!
  From: Elaine Brown 
  Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:37 PM


  bad bad bob !


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

      I agree.  The bullshit component of both is close to  99%. 

      bad Bob 

       



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