Dear Elizabeth
Sounds like you needed those plain chocolate digestives. Thanks so much for
that report; it makes me wish I had been there. I especially like the idea
of poetry as stubbornly persisting dialect, although here it might make more
sense to think of poetry as vernacular, since dialect barely exists. And
did Cayley's "materiality of language" have anything to do with embodiment,
ie, is "utter language" a thing of dis-embodiment, or purer embodiment? I
find it extremely difficult (a personal limitation, I don't doubt) to
abstract language, even written language, from the body, I am wondering if
the technology heads back or away from the body. Not sure about the
reconfiguring of time: as films can, or even static visual arts? But then,
that assertion depends on what you mean by time.
In terms of the reader/writer/intention question, might it be fruitful to
think of a work as something which provides a structured opportunity to
imagine/create meaning?
Best
A
Alison Croggon
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