Coda: Pages from an R.D. Book: Time and the Anthropocene

This paper, composed formally as an homage to Duncan’s own use of the “daybook” model, re-reads The H.D. Book as a treatise on time, working out a poetics in response to Charles Olson’s challenge, posed in the essay “Against Wisdom as Such,” to conceive of the poetic act as a practice of “bending ti...

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Main Author: Stephen Collis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2020-12-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/10597
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Summary:This paper, composed formally as an homage to Duncan’s own use of the “daybook” model, re-reads The H.D. Book as a treatise on time, working out a poetics in response to Charles Olson’s challenge, posed in the essay “Against Wisdom as Such,” to conceive of the poetic act as a practice of “bending time.” In doing so, the paper argues that it is necessary to see Duncan’s poetics as at once temporal and spatial, shaped by simultaneity as much as collage.
ISSN:1272-3819
1969-6302