{"id":4979,"date":"2012-11-05T17:39:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T17:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=4979"},"modified":"2012-11-08T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T16:06:04","slug":"anne-carson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/anne-carson\/","title":{"rendered":"dealing with fragments"},"content":{"rendered":"

from anne carson, the art of poetry no. 88<\/a><\/em> (bolding my own):<\/p>\n

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…In Sappho\u2019s poem [Fragment 31], her addresses to gods are orderly, perfect poetic products, but the way\u2014and this is the magic of fragments\u2014the way that poem breaks off [“But all is to be dared, because even a person of poverty”] leads into a thought that can\u2019t ever be apprehended. There is the space where a thought would be, but which you can\u2019t get hold of. I love that space. It\u2019s the reason I like to deal with fragments. Because no matter what the thought would be if it were fully worked out, it wouldn\u2019t be as good as the suggestion of a thought that the space gives you.<\/strong> Nothing fully worked out could be so arresting, spooky.<\/p>\n

Fragment 31<\/p>\n

He seems to me equal to gods that man
\nwhoever he is who opposite you
\nsits and listens close
\nto your sweet speaking<\/p>\n

and lovely laughing\u2014oh it
\nputs the heart in my chest on wings
\nfor when I look at you, even a moment, no speaking
\nis left in me<\/p>\n

no: tongue breaks and thin
\nfire is racing under skin
\nand in eyes no sight and drumming
\nfills ears<\/p>\n

and cold sweat holds me and shaking
\ngrips me all, greener than grass
\nI am and dead\u2014or almost
\nI seem to me.<\/p>\n

But all is to be dared, because even a person of poverty<\/p>\n

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from anne carson, the art of poetry no. 88 (bolding my own): …In Sappho\u2019s poem [Fragment 31], her addresses to gods are orderly, perfect poetic products, but the way\u2014and this is the magic of fragments\u2014the way that poem breaks off [“But all is to be dared, because even a person of poverty”] leads into a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4979"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4981,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions\/4981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}