Tuesday, June 13, 2006

News at Eleven: But the adjectives

are transformative rather than redundant, because they are deployed with such unorthodox precision--as in "tall, uncertain palms," or "feeble pink." Bishop uses adjectives not only to describe, but to anthropomorphize what she's looking at, so that what we see and what is seen are inextricably fused.

from Slate: Casual Perfection

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