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Diagrams

出版	Robert R Thurman, 2019-08
主題	Poetry / General
ISBN	17332489009781733248907
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YruFxwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Over the last decade, Robert Thurman has developed one of the most extraordinary poetic modes: a genre immediately identifiable as his own, in an idiosyncratic style, and yet never falling into predictable routines or idiomatic gestures. One knows a Thurman poem at a glance, but never knows quite what it will do. These poems are eminently readable, if never definitively decipherable. These poems invite reading while obviating a transitive reading for. Robert Thurman's small textual machines, themselves not unlike technical drawings, might look at first like inherently logical diagrams, with clean geometries delineating lettristic relations toward some definite lexical conclusion, but the image of purposefully charted relationships and precision engineered graphs is belied by the irresolvability of the combinations; the poems here never add up neatly to the simple sum of their parts. The bold, assured compositional exactitude intimates a tidy structure that no single solution can ever fully realize. These language machines scheme against as much as they offer schemas of any understanding. In the process, they are set in motion by a reading which is not a means toward some communicative message, but rather is the end in itself. As the epigraph to this book announces: "S and C resist placement."