A Poetics (65 Only)
65. Silence
Poetry is not about silences, but silences occur within it: spaces between words, between breaths, between lines and stanzas. But poetry, which is the process of speaking and saying and showing and being in place as a palpable fact, is burdened by silence, the silence of what would be ignoration if English had as single word for the process of being ignored, what the Turkish novelist Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar called the conspiracy of silence until he went himself into his final silence, since which time his work has been read much more, at a time that assured he would have no personal benefit from the recognition. But the poet doesn't matter anyway; only the poem does.
ecr. l'inf.
Poetry is not about silences, but silences occur within it: spaces between words, between breaths, between lines and stanzas. But poetry, which is the process of speaking and saying and showing and being in place as a palpable fact, is burdened by silence, the silence of what would be ignoration if English had as single word for the process of being ignored, what the Turkish novelist Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar called the conspiracy of silence until he went himself into his final silence, since which time his work has been read much more, at a time that assured he would have no personal benefit from the recognition. But the poet doesn't matter anyway; only the poem does.
ecr. l'inf.
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