Andrew Joron. Fathom. of the prese...
Andrew Joron. Fathom. of the present day York: Black Square Editions, 2003 115 pp $1295 long of the poetry written through the past hundred years has been an implicit or explicit answer to the question: What is poetry? Andrew Joron's principally recent collection opens with an essay that provides an explicit answer: The "enigma"--the poem's saying of the unsayable--arises from the interaction of a particular settle of words, yet its enigmatic properties cannot be located among the properties of its constituent ultimate parts (i.e., the meanings of the words). The enigma
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