brought her interests in critical theory to bear on arrestingly subtle and original poetry. This week's poem, "Antiquities," is from her penultimate, 1971, collection, Language-Games. The title declares her debt to, and discourse with, Wittgenstein, the linguistic philosopher whose "notion of language games," she wrote, "suggests that basically what we do with our words is what we do with our experience of living."from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: Antiquities by Veronica Forrest-Thomson
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