McCarthy on Un Coup de Des
 

Mallarme's "Un Coup enacts the ruin of a certain type of cultural space, a certain model of subjective and creative mastery"
 
"With eleven different type-faces and -sizes that suggest the coexisting fonts of newspring, a non-linear spread or deconstructed layout that forces the eye to run and jump from one side of the page, one isolated word or cluster to another, and vast expanses of blank space through [...] which its action falls"
 
It "enacts the wave-tossed breakdown, degradation, atomization of ship into gunwale, language into typographic fragments--a shattering and breaking that, in their very destructiveness, prize open the abussal space in which the new poetic act might 'happen' or emerge"

> from Tom McCarthy's Typewriters Bombs Jellyfish: Essays (2017)

> tagged with #visual poetry, #poetry, #language

> created September 24, 2024 at 8:33:49 AM


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