How meaning occurs
 

Bernstein 13: "meaning occurs / only in a context of conscious & nonconscious, / recuperable & unrecoverable, dynamics"
 
18: "These comments are partly intended as caution / against thinking of formally active poems as / eschewing content or meaning -- even in the face of / the difficulty of articulating just what this / meaning is. That is, the meaning is not absent or / deferred but self-embodied as the poem / in a way that is not transferable to another code / or rhetoric"

> from Charles Bernstein's A Poetics (1992)

> tagged with #poetics, #poetry, #meaning

> created Jan 30, 2025 at 12:35:44 PM


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