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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... reality of something abstract and invisible. The recipe tries to make, conjure, cook up. The right verbal formula: when you finally find it, something comes to be, something happens. The whole history of alchemy there. n the actualizing ...
... onstage, as he speaks the conjuring formula 'abracadabra', performs a wide sweep of the arm. We speak the poem aloud but what we don't see is the wide sweep of the arm. ur investment in the reality of illusion. We say of. 17.
From Notebooks Jeffery Donaldson. ur investment in the reality of illusion. We say of a fiction that it never really happened, and lay it aside. In physics, we say Newton's theories seemed to be accurate, based on appearances at the time ...
... constitute himself' and what it suggests about how the realities we create in poems might in some manner be actualized. The beholding is a making it so, and a living there. heatres are a kind of desert: places of mirage and. 25.
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