At the seminar Lisa spoke eloquently of her recent reading of Arendt & of "a necessary inconspicuousness" -- the poem's non-site -- ". . . a place that gives pause, a clandestine hiding place that is always strategic." That one can, or must "extract a representation which remains both inconspicuous and a site for future thinking."
I enjoyed James Scully's talk but didn't quite get what he was getting at when he said "Emily Dickinson is an anti-poet," somebody said something about "pseudo-anti-poetry."
From Scully's reading:
"The future of sleep is buried alive."
A few quotes from Lisa's reading:
"O, uneven survival"
"and if I degenerate into style it's because I love it so"
"The biggest problem with melancholy is that it is more detailed than the world."
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