Rae Armantrout : Finalists
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Process of Poetics in Process
i wanted to ask you some thing that i guess is an intersection of poetics in process, thinking about the paradox of trying to represent the unrepresentable in language. Or similarly, how you poken about your distrust of metaphors, but you also recognize them as fundamental to the way language happens. You said, i want to deal with what it means to be a finite person. To get there, i have to admit, happenstans. I think that is part of the uneasiness, is tha is like the juxposition of the diet cot commercial with yates ow wer getting u getting that dissonance? And so even sometimes when you're youre undermining metaphor
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