Read it Again (Reconstruction)
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Published: September 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781844710584
Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Australasia, Oceania & Other Land Areas; East Asia, Far East; Australian & Oceanian; Literary Criticism & Collections / Australian & Oceanian
First sentence: In one kind of instinctive response we may well think of poetry as the core or germ of language: as the condensation of ordinary discourse, but a condensation which can be felt obscurely to have been prior, related in its hieratic stance to ancient mysteries long since gone.