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Page 117
... writes , " is the Generation of the Spirit ” ( D , 269 ) , but the phrases are reversible , for there is no simple causality in a world universally degraded . The verbal process in Swift is not linear but labyrinthine ; the language is ...
... writes , " is the Generation of the Spirit ” ( D , 269 ) , but the phrases are reversible , for there is no simple causality in a world universally degraded . The verbal process in Swift is not linear but labyrinthine ; the language is ...
Page 193
... writes , " is a world of stones " ( KH , 19 ) . Movement both physical and psychic folds inward on a final and immovable density . Even the most abstract , imaginative gesture - the arc of a falling leaf in the wind , the curve a bird's ...
... writes , " is a world of stones " ( KH , 19 ) . Movement both physical and psychic folds inward on a final and immovable density . Even the most abstract , imaginative gesture - the arc of a falling leaf in the wind , the curve a bird's ...
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... writes , at the moment that he writes . Charles Olson , Selected Writings , 16-19 To write a poem is to breathe or dream in a field . The page is a field on which a net of words or a sheaf of corn is stretched tight- to catch birds ...
... writes , at the moment that he writes . Charles Olson , Selected Writings , 16-19 To write a poem is to breathe or dream in a field . The page is a field on which a net of words or a sheaf of corn is stretched tight- to catch birds ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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