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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... looks down at her bone wrists, at the little bit of dried skin still stuck to her left knee, at the ruin of herself, and is distracted, can't really take in what she might otherwise see of our later world around her. She is a child ...
... look like things that can be danced. ook IX of the Republic. In response to the point that the ideal state exists nowhere on earth, Socrates replies: 'It makes no difference whether it exists or will ever come into being ... there is a ...
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