Re: [New-Poetry] the ethics of attention in Derek Walcott’s Omeros.

[James Cervantes]

Well, that paragraph is enough to send me running away away away.  I
used to like Walcott.  Sometimes: Blessed be inattention.

- Jim

On 12/10/07, jforjames at aol.com <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
>
> http://luc8.wordpress.com/work/dissertation/omeros-poetry-proximity-and-the-ethics-of-attention/omeros-and-attention/
> way-making
>  Omeros and Attention
>  Posted by luc8 on November 3rd, 2007
>  Nearing what is Human:
>  Poetry, proximity and the ethics of attention in Derek Walcott's Omeros.
>
>  In what follows I will be focusing on the work of St Lucian poet Derek
> Walcott. In a reading of the opening passage of his epic Omeros, I will
> focus on the notion of attention, constituted by Heideggerian notions of
> nearness, care, and letting-be. I will be seeking ways in which these poems
> undergo, and impose upon us a pre-rational encounter similar to that
> suggested by Levinas - an encounter located in attention, in immediate
> proximity, but with the additional movement of letting-be, or what Heidegger
> referred to as Gelassenheit: the act of nearing without seizing or
> possessing.
>
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