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Tighty whities

Preferred whites.

Hard focus

The BIG Show

done

Hard

This line is stripped of emotion.
This line is no more than an
illustration of a European
theory. This line is bereft
of a subject. This line
has no reference apart
from its context in
this line. This line
is only about itself.
This line has no meaning:
its words are imaginary, its
sounds inaudible. This line
cares not for itself or for
anyone else—it is indifferent,
impersonal, cold, uninviting.
This line is elitist, requiring,
to understand it, years of study
over esoteric treatises on
impossible to pronounce topics.
This line refuses reality.



CHARLES BERNSTEIN, from The Republic of Reality



Difficult poems are normal. They are not incoherent, meaningless, or hostile. Wellmeaning readers may have suggested that “something must be wrong” with the poem. So let’s get a new perspective. “Difficult” is very different from abnormal. In today’s climate, with an increasing number of poems being labeled “difficult,” this is an important distinction to keep in mind.

Azul

see also Packn

To know.

 

zin, originally uploaded by dlxlb.

It is one thing . . . to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to your memory, whereas to know, by contrast, is actually to make each item your own, and not to be dependent on some original and be constantly looking to see what the master said.

SENECA*, Letters to Lucilius, 1st century BC, trans. Robin Campbell

*O, the irony.

Brimming

Blue stripes

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