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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... inside a larger perspective. We have a harder time granting that allowance in literature. Newton still gets to be a rock star, while the song of sixpence gets patted on the head. But quantum physicists are nearer the point of ...
... 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. We move 24.
From Notebooks Jeffery Donaldson. e live inside our imagined fictions, our stories. We move in them the way dancers move inside a dance. The dance itself is pure form, but actual bodies go through their motions and make them look like ...
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