Comments on: Like snowflakes in museums http://sabrinabythesea.com/like-snowflakes-in-museums/ Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:17:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tom neuwirth http://sabrinabythesea.com/like-snowflakes-in-museums/comment-page-1/#comment-18 tom neuwirth Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:17:25 +0000 http://sabrinabythesea.com/?p=10#comment-18 words spoken need hearing words written need reading wordy thoughts need understanding in the end language is the medicine we need take massive sosages constaly words spoken need hearing words written need reading wordy thoughts need understanding in the end language is the medicine we need take massive sosages constaly

]]> By: Andrea http://sabrinabythesea.com/like-snowflakes-in-museums/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Andrea Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:36:05 +0000 http://sabrinabythesea.com/?p=10#comment-17 Language tends to take on the condition of things in a world, and especially the active view that holds a world together. One's own language perpetuates one's world; indeed, this may be a primary function of language, world-preservation. To assess the condition of one's world, one might examine the state of one's language, its degree, for instance, of flexibility. It follows that the very possibility for conscious change can be read in the functional range of one's language. Poetry, then, is an art form of this possibility, registered in the sense of verse as intentional turning, including conscious reversal. --From George Quasha's essay "Axial Poetics" (at "Exquisite Corpse") http://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_11/manifestos/quasha.html Language tends to take on the condition of things in a world, and especially the active view that holds a world together. One’s own language perpetuates one’s world; indeed, this may be a primary function of language, world-preservation. To assess the condition of one’s world, one might examine the state of one’s language, its degree, for instance, of flexibility. It follows that the very possibility for conscious change can be read in the functional range of one’s language. Poetry, then, is an art form of this possibility, registered in the sense of verse as intentional turning, including conscious reversal.

–From George Quasha’s essay “Axial Poetics” (at “Exquisite Corpse”)

http://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_11/manifestos/quasha.html

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