Consciousness (Armantrout)
Consciousness entrenches itself by hijacking the orienting-response, forcing it to work overtime to produce a continuous present.
Rae Armantrout, from "As (2)"
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A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
—Randall Jarrell
—Randall Jarrell
Saturday, July 03, 2010
