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Obsessions of an Inflexion Point

Obsessions of an Inflexion Point

Rakhshani, R.

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1463661843
ISBN13: 9781463661847
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 10 2011
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: Persian
To write poetry is to invent a new language within language, to invent a process carrying words along from one end of the universe to the other. Writing poetry is to get away, to flee, to trace a line, lines, an entire cartography. Writing poetry is to trace lines of flight, a line of flight being a line that converges on; diverges from; an inflexion point in a perspectival representation, a line leading beyond the horizon out of our life, to cross a horizon into another life. No matter what life, so long as it is another life. It is an escape, but always an escape across the horizon to a different world, a world that is antithetical to the human realm, yet filled with nonhuman life. Writing poetry is a voyage, a journey, a trajectory toward an outside when healthy, a blocked path when sick. Yet the invention of a new language connects literature not only to the outside world, but also to the outside of language itself, to visions and auditions that are non-linguistic, but only language alone can make possible. When the writer is a seer and hearer, an inventor of visions and auditions, poetry attains its goal of the passage of life into language.

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