Hi Doug,
Yes, I think so, there is a sense of discovery often in writing,
which is part of what I include in using the word "emergence",
both in the author, and in the reader too. Not only the
way in which, not knowing what I'm going to say until
I have to say it, I may be surprised by the feeling or knowing
of the feeling in the poem, but that way in which a poem
much read in intervals over the years can still surprise me
or I may feel I discover something new in my reading of it.
I think that "certain arrangements of words" do convey feeling,
which is why the formal interest that Alison spoke of is
inseparable from the feeling, being
intertwined with it in this sort of emergence of a body
of words that is a particular text.
Best,
Rebecca
Rebecca Seiferle
www.thedrunkenboat.com
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> I've been finding all this conversation fascinating, & tend to see myselfin a certain agreement to most of it, but I also wonder:
how much do certain charged arrangements of words construct emotion, or
ways of experiencing emotion? some are cliché, well-worn, but still do the
job, & what excites us about the poems that stick in our minds is that
certain fresh formations suddenly allow us to feel something as if (again)
for the first time. so the writer may discover a kind of feeling as s/he
finds the way to express it, which is that sense of discovery in the act
of
writing that some have been pointing to (or toward).
certainly that has been a form of the 'work' (the working out in) of art
that i recognize in my own endeavours...
doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
How, but thru a monstrous 'specialism', the so-called authority
of erstwhile 'professionals', have we come to leave
_breath_ out of images and _images_ out of breath, anyhow?
Roy Kiyooka
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