Bernstein on Scalapino
 

Bernstein 81: "Scalapino correlates shifts / in syntactic patterns with shifts / in attentional focus. Using a language / sometimes bordering on sociological observation, the details / that Scalapino reveals / have the intensity of the obviously / factual while continually showing / themselves, within / the echo chamber that is each / work, to be hidden truths, clues / to how a life is understood through the unfolding / of specific details, obscured or repressed, brought / to light by / the probing of memory, perception, & invention. / Yet, finally, it is the rhythm created / by permutating the attentional beams, the chordal / patterns created by her serial scannings / that create the musical coherence / that takes the work beyond / any distancing or dislocating / devices that serve to build / it"
 
a "multifocused absorption"

> from Charles Bernstein's A Poetics (1992)

> tagged with #attention, #themes, #poetry_craft_techniques, #rhythm, #poetry

> created Feb 19, 2025 at 12:56:24 PM


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