>I rather like the idea of poetry as a superposition of
>states.
I initially misread this as a "superstition of states".
Which I rather like.
I am not at all sure what poetry is, but I'm pretty sure that
mathematical and musical principles can't be anything but dressing up,
and although they're very attractive baubles it can't help but return to
the muck of glands and and skin and breath, the primacy of spokenness.
These things - the gesture of a hand, say - are what are so far defeating
the robotics avatars, and may be the proper angelic qualities,
indefinable and uncontrollable by Man (using the noun advisedly).
Theories so often seem a kind of hallucinatory miasma around these
phenomena, gaining embodiments only from them, and useful only insofar as
they are embodied; but in the end perhaps useless, and certainly the more
useless the further they retreat from a poem's materiality. Certainly
useless for me in front of a blank page.
On the other hand, I'm not sure that poetry knows what to do without
gods. But we're all gamblers, aren't we?
Best
Alison
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