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Finding Focus (for Vivian Smith) single work   poetry   biography   "Coeval in the indices, arriving safe"
  • Author:agent Fay Zwicky http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/zwicky-fay
Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Finding Focus (for Vivian Smith)
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Southerly vol. 56 no. 2 Winter 1996 Z587957 1996 periodical issue 1996 pg. 67
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Gatekeeper's Wife Fay Zwicky , Rose Bay : Brandl and Schlesinger , 1997 Z419316 1997 selected work poetry Rose Bay : Brandl and Schlesinger , 1997 pg. 33

Works about this Work

Write into the Unsayable : Apophatic Strategy in Poetic Practice Mags Webster , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 7 no. 2 2017;

'Poet Alice Notley once remarked, ‘like many writers I feel ambivalent about words, I know they don't work, I know they aren't it’ (Notley 2010: n.pag.). Over centuries, in both East and West, poets, mystics, philosophers, and worshippers have developed a semantics of negation—apophasis—to deal with what lies beyond language, to draw closer to uttering what cannot be said. As part of my PhD research I am experimenting with apophasis as a poetic strategy, exploring representations (in both poetic form and content) of absence through space, silence, and denial. Taking Notley’s statement as a reference point, this paper contemplates, from a practitioner perspective and through examples of my creative work, the idea that every poem is an attempt to write into the unsayable. ' (Publication abstract)

Write into the Unsayable : Apophatic Strategy in Poetic Practice Mags Webster , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 7 no. 2 2017;

'Poet Alice Notley once remarked, ‘like many writers I feel ambivalent about words, I know they don't work, I know they aren't it’ (Notley 2010: n.pag.). Over centuries, in both East and West, poets, mystics, philosophers, and worshippers have developed a semantics of negation—apophasis—to deal with what lies beyond language, to draw closer to uttering what cannot be said. As part of my PhD research I am experimenting with apophasis as a poetic strategy, exploring representations (in both poetic form and content) of absence through space, silence, and denial. Taking Notley’s statement as a reference point, this paper contemplates, from a practitioner perspective and through examples of my creative work, the idea that every poem is an attempt to write into the unsayable. ' (Publication abstract)

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