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Forethought: Poems
Forethought: Poems in Bloomington, MN
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From the forward:
The world stands up.
The sentence points to something and is an instance of this something. The world stands up in the statement. Such is the nature of language, a natural occurrence, rising with the irises in April, the sandhill cranes in September.
Any written word stands up first in the mind - thought being another natural occurrence. Early hominids devoted enormous amounts of precious energy to evolving a neocortex, home of human thought. As a result, mentation has become the dominant characteristic of our species. Most of us, most in the time, live first in a mental topography.
The poems in this book are instances. Each points to a world standing up before our thinking, before our saying anything about it, to ourselves or anyone else. I hope reading them refreshes your experience of this world, as writing them has refreshed mine.
The world stands up.
The sentence points to something and is an instance of this something. The world stands up in the statement. Such is the nature of language, a natural occurrence, rising with the irises in April, the sandhill cranes in September.
Any written word stands up first in the mind - thought being another natural occurrence. Early hominids devoted enormous amounts of precious energy to evolving a neocortex, home of human thought. As a result, mentation has become the dominant characteristic of our species. Most of us, most in the time, live first in a mental topography.
The poems in this book are instances. Each points to a world standing up before our thinking, before our saying anything about it, to ourselves or anyone else. I hope reading them refreshes your experience of this world, as writing them has refreshed mine.
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