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“Or Paul Celan said that the poem was no different from a handshake. (...) The handshake is our decided ritual of both asserting (I am here) and handing over (here) a self to another. Hence the poem is that - Here. I am here. This conflation of the solidity of presence with the offering of this same presence perhaps has everything to do with being alive.” — Claudia Rankine
Or Paul Celan said that the poem was no different from a handshake. (...) The handshake is our decided ritual of both asserting (I am here) and handing over (here) a self to another. Hence the poem is that - Here. I am here. This conflation of the solidity of presence with the offering of this same presence perhaps has everything to do with being alive.