Tuesday, September 08, 2009

News at Eleven: There is a tension between the music

of the line and its meaning which [Michael] Gizzi refuses to resolve.

"Two comics move away from a mirror: one a mist one a mast."

Rather than stopping to explain what this might mean, Gizzi moves on, clearly in love with the spaces that language can bring him to:

"The good thing about rats is they don't lie. Cross a gecko with a mussel and what you have is a new kind of adhesive tape."

from The Brooklyn Rail: Poetry: After the Road

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