7.27.2022

perceptions rearranged

As far as I see it, a poem has business to exist, really, if there's a reasonable chance that somebody may have his perceptions rearranged by having read it or having used it. The poem is always capable of being a subversive agent, psychologically, sensuously, however you like.

Roy Fisher, Interviews Through Time and Selected Prose (Shearsman Books, 2000), p. 64.

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