After Ana Božičević’s Same Difference...(responding to Nic Bravo)

Sunday, January 29, 2012

After Ana Božičević’s Same Difference...(responding to Nic Bravo)

After Ana Božičević’s Same Difference in Evening Will Come.

I encountered a wolf once. I was walking home from another farm. It was dusk, and I walked down the road and the wolf followed, parallel, in the field. It felt exhilarating like I could be eaten. But the exhilaration was a…

Nic then writes:

Maybe I don’t have a good imagination, but [the thought of]/[not] being [b]eaten doesn’t do it for me. I don’t find any exhilaration in [the wanting]/[the waiting]/[the near miss]. The being [b]eaten itself is where the passion lies for me, in the literal/first-hand experience, not the literary/imagined experience. To say it from another direction, I like my feelings to be words on the page or in someone’s ears, not in my head or my heart.

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reblogging because:

1. talking about poetics (esp w/ non poets) is pretty much my favorite thing ever

2. Ana Božičević gives me the poetry feeling, hardcore. i first called it that when i was trying to write an annotation on stars of the night commute in grad school. what do you write when the poem is already the most perfect thing? the erotics of identification with, of (being stunned into) silence. i don’t know what to say about this.

3. i admire nic bravo’s ethos of intense straightforwardness, and her brackets/italics/bolding. Is it wrong to say the syntax is erotic? “sexy” was the first adjective that came to mind. Not that that means anything. is the first word the best word? (poetics vs real life)

4. is poetry inherently avoidant? if we ever achieved perfect consensual communication IRL would we even need to say other things, in these other ways? this is a thought experiment. jasmine hates thought experiments. bhanu wrote (somewhere) that writing is antisocial. writing is what you do instead of living.

5. mostly to remind myself to keep thinking/writing about this

6. DO YOU HAVE AN ANSWER TO ANY OF THESE HIGHLY URGENT QUESTIONS?

7. please?

please?

i am trying to make the box to answer the question come up?

where is it?

please answer my questions even if the body doesn’t show up

i mean the box