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Making a poem is making an object.
I always thought of them more as drawings than as texts, but drawings that are also physically enterable through the fact of language.
It was another way to think of a book, an object that is as visually real as it is textually real.
—Αnne Carson
at Montreal’s Blue Metropolis Festival, 2016
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When the world arises in me,
It is just an illusion:
Water shimmering in the sun,
A vein of silver in mother-of-pearl,
A serpent in a strand of rope.
From me the world streams out
And in me it dissolves,
As a bracelet melts into gold,
A pot crumbles into clay,
A wave subsides into water.
—Ashtavakra Gita 2: 9-10
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