The author is that which gives the disquieting language of fiction or poetry its unities and disunities, its knot of coherence and chaos, its insertion into the real. All reading is done haphazardly. Poetics opens the space of a page to interplay and contradiction, to many voices, a complexity of words. A poet brushes scraps of themes against the continuum of history. Language surrounds chaos.
Poetry brings similitude and representation to configurations waiting from forever to be spoken.
A poet is writing from inside the opening where the writing subject disappeared without writing. The search for traces is a polyphony of stories. Oral poetry is best thought of as something not older than or prior to or simpler than the written, but as something that goes on coexisting with, and interacting with, the written. We consider both alphabetic and nonalphabetic writing codes of the historical past and imaginary codes of a potential present. There are no individual degree requirements for these programs, which are open to all enrolled students.