Imagining Flowers: Perceptual Mimesis (Particularly Delphinium)
In: Representations, Jg. 57 (1997), S. 90-115
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Ashbery returns often to this subject and when he does, the image that he again and again uses to express the image-making power of the mind under poetry's sway is-as in the lush foliage of the lines above-that of the flower: "Now, / About what to put in your poem-painting," he writes, "Flowers are always nice, particularly delphinium."' In his prose poem "Whatever It Is, Wherever You Are," Ashbery speaks about the invention of writing, "the cross-hatching technique which allowed our ancestors to exchange certain genetic traits for others," and he continues
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Imagining Flowers: Perceptual Mimesis (Particularly Delphinium)
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Scarry, Elaine |
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Zeitschrift: | Representations, Jg. 57 (1997), S. 90-115 |
Veröffentlichung: | University of California Press, 1997 |
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ISSN: | 1533-855X (print) ; 0734-6018 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1525/rep.1997.57.1.99p0361u |
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