Welcome back Henry
Roger
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From: "Henry Gould" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: "Contains"/Kent
> Exactly, Martin! The Angostura worked like magic! (even though I gave it
> up for Lent)
>
> Thanks for all the encouragement to return, friends.
>
> I've been trying to follow the "contains" discussion. My first reaction
is
> the thought that great poetry reshapes the boundaries & meanings of
> meaning. You enter the orbit of a kinship that can change your life. In
> that sense the reader is "contained" by the poem. I think of this as an
> impulse or communicative gesture or field of energy which surrounds the
> verbal crystallization of the language per se. The verbal
crystallization,
> the poem itself, is a kind of telos - a magnetic or hypnotic stasis which
> "stops" time or draws it into another dimension.
>
> Have been re-reading Montale's "La bufera e altro" (The Storm & Other
> Things), with the Arrowsmith translation & notes, which inspires these
> comments.
>
> Henry
>
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