Where, when, what (Hafez)
I see no love in anyone,
Where, then, have all the lovers gone?
And when did all our friendship end,
And what's become of every friend?
Hafez
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Poets start with the assumption of an oversignifying reader.... The work of the poet is to contribute a text that will firstly invite such a reading, and secondly reward such a reading. What we're left with is a cultural contract between reader and writer, involving three identifiable and independent stages. A poem is usually (a) written as a poem; (b) presented as a poem; then (c) read as a poem.
—Don Paterson, The Poem
—Don Paterson, The Poem
Thursday, September 11, 2014
