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A poet speaks the truth

(via Peter Gizzi and http://kasamaproject.org/2011/08/09/britain-a-poet-speaks-truth/)

Posted: August 10, 2011 | Comments (0)

2 more pdfs

Peter Gizzi’s ‘Eye of the Poem’ & Jeremy Noel-Tod’s remembrance of R.F. Langley, with Langley’s ‘Sixpence a Day’. From the latter:
“Over tea, he showed me a new poem. It began with the almost-nothing of ‘A wine glass of water on / the windowsill’, only to spread out into thistle seeds, teasels, chaffinches, wading birds, [...]

Posted: August 9, 2011 | Comments (0)

Katrina Forrester on Stanley Cavell

Second of today’s uploads, read Katrina Forrester’s review of Cavell’s (second) autobiography, Little Did I know: Excerpts from Memory (Stanford University Press).
“For Cavell, questions about philosophy are central to the study of philosophy. “What can I know?” must be intimately connected to “why should I care about what I can know?” This is one of [...]

Posted: August 7, 2011 | Comments (1)