"the perpetual star multifoliate rose"
Eliot, Rauschenberg, Kafka, Gilbert, Bourgeois, Giacometti, Howe
T.S. Eliot:
Robert Rauschenberg:
Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else's aesthetics.
Franz Kafka, Aug. 11, 1912:
Jack Gilbert:
Louise Bourgeois:
James Lord, A Giacometti Portrait:
Susan Howe:
Poetry brings similitude and representation to configurations waiting from forever to be spoken….I write to break out into perfect primeval Consent. I wish I could tenderly lift from the dark side of history, voices that are anonymous, slighted—inarticulate.
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