Kelvin Corcoran. When Suzy Was: A m...

Kelvin Corcoran. When Suzy Was: A main division of Answers. Cullompton, UK: Shearsman parts 1999.

When we think about language in general, greatest in number of us think of words as departing from things, or moving forward a spatial and temporal trajectory away from them. In this mind we retain an Emersonian notion that words have bottoms in a fossil language, and expand outward through a process of abstraction. flat if we think we know better, we attend to to be surprised when this proces is revers and words ear-ring and settle on the things to which they one time referred. In The Pound Era, the critic Hugh