Sherry Chandler » 58 & 79
58 & 79
58. What if there were no other writers? What would I write like?
79. I am continually amazed at how many writers are writing the poems they believe the person they wish they were would have written.
99. Those who would excerpt or edit miss the point.
— from Ron Silliman’s The Chinese Notebook
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2 Comments
1. Terry replies at 10th January 2006, 12:23 pm :
I’m pondering #79 — trying to decide if it’s a bad thing or not. I think there’s a place for the aspirations of our higher selves, the idealism. But perhaps that’s at odds with emotional honesty.
2. sherry replies at 11th January 2006, 5:49 am :
I think maybe #79 is a little like a koan, and a bit of a provocation without an answer. At this point in my life, I can’t say I’m certain who I wish I were. I think I’m more likely to fit this quotation from Northrop Frye: “…I feel so irritated at my stupidities that I get irritated at my irritation…”
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