Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Disc... A source page for quotes linked to Jerome Rothenberg. 0 quotes
“Lorca’s Spain: A Homage” Beginning with olive trees. Shadows. Beginning with roosters. Crystal. Beginning with castanets & almonds. Fishes. This is a homage to Spain. This mists dogs. This silences rubber. This is Saturn. Beginning with yellow. Eclipse. Beginning with needles. Insomnia. Beginning with baskets. The Moon. Who is naked? The imagination (wrote Lorca) is seared. This is a homage to water. Beginning & end.” PoetryWaterSpainLorca Book:The Lorca Variations Source: The Lorca Variations
“I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a post-literate situation, that human speech is a near-endless source of poetic forms, that there has always been more oral than written poetry, & that we can no longer pretend to a knowledge of poetry if we deny its oral dimension.” IfsHumansFormSituationWrittenSourceSpeechDenyEndlessPostsDimensionsPoeticDomain Book:Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics Source: Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics
“As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If it I had taken Hygiene 71 seriously, I would have become a monk; & if I had taken college English seriously, I would have become an accountant.” IfsWaySexClassTakenTaughtCollegePerformancesBelongingClassroomMonkTaught UsAccountantsHygieneSemiotics Book:Pre-faces & Other Writings Source: Pre-faces & Other Writings
