Viaticum: From Notebooks‘When does a thought become part of a poem and when does it become part of some other form of writing? ... You jot something down and watch to see how it leans.’ In Viaticum, Jeffery Donaldson presents selections from his notebooks that represent, as Wallace Stevens might say, ‘a readiness for first bells’. These proto-arguments and poetic seedlings—musings on the process of thought, the power of language, the passage of time and the promise of the afterlife—wait to see if ‘not yet’ might be ‘already something’. They offer glimpses inside the mind of a thoughtful poet, and provide readers with a spiritual conductor whose orchestral rehearsal culminates in no actual performance—‘only the sense that we are ready now’. |
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... feel that the leaps of cause-and-effect logic are something more than metaphorical. We call those leaps reasonable, but the circularity merely disguises the mystery of the leap itself. e live inside our imagined fictions, our stories ...
... feel like a foreign-language speaker. The ear reaching after scraps of sense. t a lighthouse. There are two ways of communicating with ships at sea: a beam of light or a foghorn. You need the foghorn, naturally, for when there is heavy ...
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