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The Lobe
Poetry. ". . . Lytle Shaw has carried out often disruptive, sometimes hilarious, and sometimes melancholy explorations into the processes through which the world gets made into an object of knowledge. But what is the lobe of the book's title? A lobe is a roundish projection, a part of something to which it is attached by the very fissure that also creates it. A lobby could serve as an architectural example, its fissures the walls, doors, stairs, and elevators which connect it to the rest of the building. But not all lobes are material. Knowledge-creates lobes of a sort (hence the interest in Diderot). More precisely, it is about the fissures that form the known, the fissures that form knowers and that leave them (us) dangling in the wind"-Lyn Hejinian. A SIDE OF CLOSURE also available at SPD.
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First published January 1, 2002
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January 18, 2010
"Subversive" book that is good enough to get past airport security:
"So, for you I have saved a salad / of deck planks for planking in the sun"
that is the first line in a long time that I am going to hold onto.
For some reason, I got a Prageeta vibe while reading this book.
A similar kind of intelligence that is completely outside of me.
I like it. I have no hold on it and I trust it.
With appreciation, etc, etc.
"So, for you I have saved a salad / of deck planks for planking in the sun"
that is the first line in a long time that I am going to hold onto.
For some reason, I got a Prageeta vibe while reading this book.
A similar kind of intelligence that is completely outside of me.
I like it. I have no hold on it and I trust it.
With appreciation, etc, etc.
Displaying 1 of 1 review