Showing posts with label gravity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gravity. Show all posts
10.19.2015
7.30.2015
8.30.2014
both philatelist and pirate
He wrote his poems against the gravity of language. Images, therefore, speak in his poetry solely on his behalf.
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He was almost a philatelist with words. (He saw, long before we did, the fact that the boundaries of language are the boundaries of the world.)
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A man of the Golden Age. “Poeta pirata est,” he would say?
From “Oktay Rifat”
—Ilhan Berk, Selected Poems by Ilhan Berk (Talisman House, 2004), edited and translation by Önder Otçu.
[…]
He was almost a philatelist with words. (He saw, long before we did, the fact that the boundaries of language are the boundaries of the world.)
[…]
A man of the Golden Age. “Poeta pirata est,” he would say?
From “Oktay Rifat”
—Ilhan Berk, Selected Poems by Ilhan Berk (Talisman House, 2004), edited and translation by Önder Otçu.
9.09.2012
specific gravity
What does a writer of prose learn from poetry? The dependence of a word’s specific gravity on context, focused thinking, omission of the self-evident, the dangers that lurk with an elevated state of mind.
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[Marina Tsvetaeva] never has enough space: either in a poem or in prose. Even her most scholarly-sounding essays are always like elbows protruding from a small room. A poem is constructed on the principle of the complex sentence, prose consists of grammatical enjambments…
—Joseph Brodsky, “A Poet and Prose,” Less Than One: Selected Essays (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986)
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[Marina Tsvetaeva] never has enough space: either in a poem or in prose. Even her most scholarly-sounding essays are always like elbows protruding from a small room. A poem is constructed on the principle of the complex sentence, prose consists of grammatical enjambments…
—Joseph Brodsky, “A Poet and Prose,” Less Than One: Selected Essays (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986)
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