Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time..

Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that overlap in th….

So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that we find exception….

We turn from the light to see..

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read..

Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage.

Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium is syntax, gr….

There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin..

This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem the give to the reader….

We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall across them. We're not yet safe..

The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act..