Silence Spoken Here

by Samuel Hazo

Book Overview

"If architecture exists to create space," the author reminds us, "poetry exists to create silence. Not mere quietude. Not solitude. Rather it is a silence within and by the experience of the poem itself. It inevitably exceeds the poem since, though the poem can create it, it cannot contain it. Within this silence the imagination and the feelings are renewed, and because of that renewal they live momentarily with a will and momentum of their own. In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0910395381
• ISBN13: 9780910395380
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Marlboro Press
• Length: 117 Pages