Post Two: Fragments

These are quotes collected for an exercise of noticing what I notice in another class.

• "I stopped yelling at old people, I wasn't getting a damn thing done."
• "and curiosity was stayed by fear"
• "A demagogic nostalgia for the greater authenticity of the experience of the imagined less well-off 'other', as if only severe forms of oppression can create 'relevant' poetry."
• "when an author is in your books, you have the same demand upon him for his wit, as a merchant has for your money, when you are in his."
• "James Maury commended the practice as a means 'to reflect, and remark on and digest what you read."
• "He proved that white space and irregularity could be part of a poem's structural composition."
• "The fragments of a poem are deliberately kept in random order to be reassembled in a single instant of consciousness."
• "The fractured poem may be relatively linear and continuous, or it may be radically disjunctive, but when transition is removed, relations become implicit, not explicit. Content may be whole, or partial, or it might even be subversively suppressed, left to be provided by the reader."