Showing posts with label rearrange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rearrange. Show all posts

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.

8.26.2009

reordering the mess

A rearranged bad poem is a bad poem rearranged. (Thinking of some of Ted Berrigan's sonnets.)

10.24.2008

impact image

An image that aggressively rearranges the space of human experience.