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

[Elaine Brown]

Perhaps in unison so they occur slightly staggered and alternating, as
you¹ve suggested, but simultaneous none the less?


On 10/21/06 5:57 PM, "Anny Ballardini" <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:

> Yes, yes! 
> Both mathematical and philosophical in an alternating phenomenological
> Calderean or Tinguelyan structure, or both, but always alternating, I think it
> works better
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> From:  Elaine Brown <mailto:hawkbrwn at msn.com>
>>  
>> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 11:22  PM
>>  
>> 
>> 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...!
>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> From:  Elaine Brown "><mailto:hawkbrwn at msn.com> <mailto:hawkbrwn at msn.com>
>>>>  
>>>> 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.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ˆJan 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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