“Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.” SoulLanguageLayersPerilOzoneOzone Layer Book:The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age Source: The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
“Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax, image and metaphor. Reading it-the best of it-can create another, very different kind of perpetual present, an awareness that can be as ongoing in the soul as the stop-time of trauma.” NeedsKindDifferentSoulReadingLanguageAwarenessCommunicationSpringCapacityMetaphorTraumaRhythmConcentrationDevicesDifferent KindsPerpetualOngoingPrimalSyntaxStop Time Author:Sven Birkerts
