"Passed through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech"
Roethke, Adnan, Kielar, Gilbert, Celan, Piper
Theodore Roethke:
Etel Adnan:
Marzanna Kielar (trans. Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese):
Jack Gilbert:
Paul Celan (trans. Pierre Joris):
Adrian Piper:
The paintings are very much about what it was like for me to go beyond the surfaces of things—to concentrate so intently on the fine details and structure of a meditational object—on any object, really, any perceptual reality—that all of its surface sensory qualities, its conventional meanings and uses, its psychological associations and conceptual significance, all begin to move, breathe, vibrate, break up, and fall away.
Paul Celan:
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