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

[Elaine Brown]

And read these and other such quotes to him till he starts behaving himself


On 10/21/06 5:02 PM, "Anny Ballardini" <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:

> I totally agree Elaine, we should put him in the corner...!
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>> From:  Elaine Brown <mailto:hawkbrwn at msn.com>
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>> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:37  PM
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>> bad bad bob  !
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>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> –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%.
>>>> 
>>>> bad Bob 
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