February 2012
2 posts
More Beautiful, More Intense? HD's Poetics of...
“I will not reason and compare,” writes Blake; “my business is to create.” But poetry is a practice of comparison. That’s what I want to show today through a reading of H.D.’s first book, Sea Garden. Poetry is a practice of immanent measure. It is the creation of comparison. It constructs relations among relative intensities, it weighs these, and it manifests a decision between them. I want to say...