Since Frederick started it, I think I am allergic to "resonate," I see right
there a baritone with a barrel slowly lifting in the air, ...
I am reminded in your second quotation by a much poorer Kristeva, who anyhow
was quite similar.
On 11/5/07, Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 10:45 AM
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> & mine, & a lot of others'
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> I'm reading a ms of Erin Moure's essays, & she is insistent on writing
> against the grain, but for language, following it as far as she can
> risk.
>
> Anyway, I liked this statement: discussing what she learned working in
> a corporation (will wonders never cease?), she says, 'I learned what
> poetry was for: not to tell stories or laud the chippie but to query,
> listen to language itself, let it pull me, allow it to resonate with
> all life's paradoxical splendour.'
>
> Moure also says: 'But poetry is not about creativity or uplifting
> people but about risk, great risk, hurtling oneself at the boundaries
> of language, ears pressed to the borders of the structure and hearing
> its constraints, which also indicate _openings_. Operating at the edge
> of our belief about what language can do. Risking that you might not
> like or understand the result at first, or for years.'
>
> Not that I can always live up to such ideals, but that they exist.
>
> Doug
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> I wonder how "life's paradoxical splendor" manifests itself if not in
> "stories."
>
> What does "laud the chippie" mean?
>
> With all due respect, Doug, these quotations strike me as gas.
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