whisper

Surfing from Brenda Coultas to Barbara Henning, and was rewarded by a quote from Alice Notley.

THERE is too much of human material now everywhere: the world is covered with “the man-made.” None of our problems can be solved by making more of it, more of the material, including books. Shiny-covered, same-looking books everywhere. To go into a bookstore & be made sick by all the books there, is almost the same as to be made sick by all the dead cars in new Jersey, seen from the train window, early in the morning. All achievement, writerly & poetic achievement included, must become more invisible. The notion of “soul,” of the Invisible, must be taken up again. Alice Notley (“Homer’s Art”, v)

From the Fragment
A POETICS

edited & collected by
Barbara Henning

I spent all day half-thinking about how to become more invisible.