
Composition of Life, as Life: A discussion of Joan Retallack’s The Poethical Wager (a several-page excerpt)
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The Art of Composing
The act of composition in the writing is radically performulaic official thought, but no existence except as formula. One must always have the courage of an intention groping its way. As long as nobody knows it, and one creating the composition in the arts does not know it either, they are conducting life. It makes their work compose as it does. And now, to begin, as if to begin, composition is not there. It is going to be there, and we are here. Nothing changes except composition, the composition, and the time of and the time in the composition. This has to do with the fact that being where one is in the preent, as it is continuing
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