tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post1547306733186350986..comments2024-02-22T15:48:50.427-08:00Comments on Poems and Poetics: Cecilia Vicuña: Word & ThreadJerome Rothenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14166931849293504537noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post-11890569779762936442011-05-24T11:36:50.940-07:002011-05-24T11:36:50.940-07:00OK, sorry, I have to comment or the thought fester...OK, sorry, I have to comment or the thought festers. I love the way this one dances with the Peter Manson translations, Mallarme’s “mobilized inequalities” finally threaded to the edge, as in:<br /><br />Is the word the conducting thread, or does thread<br /> conduct the word-making?<br />Both lead to the centre of memory, a way of uniting<br /> and connecting.<br />A word carries another word as thread searches for<br /> thread…<br />The word and the thread<br /> carry us beyond<br />Threading and speaking, to what unites us, the<br /> immortal fiber.<br /><br />Mallarme’s grave is thus no longer inhabited by a Dada-monocled dandy with absinthe stains on his mustache, but a mummy whose “thread weaves the world.” A being as free to converse with as his words, his threads, his <i>poesies maudit</i> are.WAShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10403669322174979974noreply@blogger.com