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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... Or does it tend towards an intelligible logic that wants to say something? How in the end are these even different? 'The poet never lieth because he nothing affirmeth,' writes Sir Philip Sidney. Says W.B. Yeats: 'You 10.
... poetic kernel, not yet having reached their point of no return. They are 'false starts', not because the start was untimely, but because they don't go past starting. How to embody that special state of mind that Stevens called 'a ...
... on the other side. Heisenberg says that the world reflects back to us our means of questioning it. Poets, come out from your hiding places. ffective disinterested contemplation is possible only with illusions that have. 18.
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