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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... keep coming back to Frye's saying that he was always just looking for 'the right verbal formula'. That last word sticks in my head. I'd always thought of 'formula' more as mathematical equation than as recipe, but there is something of ...
... that you walk along and imagine it is an actual path, separate from yourself. You fall obligingly into the hole that you yourself put there. It shows how asleep we are when we are awake. keep coming back to it, that reason is a form 23.
From Notebooks Jeffery Donaldson. keep coming back to it, that reason is a form of story, but where we feel that the leaps of cause-and-effect logic are something more than metaphorical. We call those leaps reasonable, but the ...
From Notebooks Jeffery Donaldson. his question again of whether societies can actually change themselves, make new spaces to move into. I keep coming back to Harold and the Purple Crayon, about the toddler with the big crayon in his hand ...
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