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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... thought of account books. She said, 'Account books? They are dream books.' It is the daily work of trying to 'account' for things, first salvos, sketches that you keep to yourself. Beginnings in a sense are provisions for a journey, at ...
... thought of 'formula' more as mathematical equation than as recipe, but there is something of both in it. Math tries to measure and mark down the reality of something abstract and invisible. The recipe tries to make, conjure, cook up ...
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