Poetry In Principle: Essays in Poetics - Tapa blanda

Poetry in Principlegeorge quasha
In this highly original text—itself a unique event of original thinking—George Quasha opens not just with paradox but with what appears to be an outright contradiction: poetry/in principle. A contradiction indeed ... unless it turns out that poetry is something more than a discrete happening, and if principle itself proves to be other than unmitigatedly general.
        —Edward S. Casey
For five decades, Quasha has fearlessly and lucidly in poetry, essays, anthologies and interviews built a poetics of radical utterance, a poetry of the word unleashed from melody, set free from number—into pure saying.
                —Robert Kelly
What I enjoy and value in George Quasha’s Poetry in Principle is its dialectic of abstract philosophical concepts on thinking in dialogue with the physics of everyday life. Its language is “a feedback medium of released self-perception,” an improvisational intelligence inked in principles that stand against today’s gift-wrapped culture of make America great again preservatives manufacturing lies about mortality and the sustainability of a beautiful and finite planet Earth. Quasha’s writing takes its planetary time to heart. The rhetorical resonance of his prose reveals the complexities of why poetry matters. What are the reasons people search for exits in thought and word, why are exits needed? Why take leave of what has taken so much effort and time to arrive, and to create? Is human consciousness an inevitable contradiction of its existence? Quasha’s principles are tuned to the Anthropocene. Listen carefully, and jump in.
    —Andrew Levy

In this highly original text—itself a unique event of original thinking—George Quasha opens not just with paradox but with what appears to be an outright contradiction: poetry/in principle. A contradiction indeed ... unless it turns out that poetry is something more than a discrete happening, and if principle itself proves to be other than unmitigatedly general.
—Edward S. Casey

For five decades, Quasha has fearlessly and lucidly in poetry, essays, anthologies and interviews built a poetics of radical utterance, a poetry of the word unleashed from melody, set free from number—into pure saying.
—Robert Kelly

What I enjoy and value in George Quasha’s Poetry in Principle is its dialectic of abstract philosophical concepts on thinking in dialogue with the physics of everyday life. Its language is “a feedback medium of released self-perception,” an improvisational intelligence inked in principles that stand against today’s gift-wrapped culture of make America great again preservatives manufacturing lies about mortality and the sustainability of a beautiful and finite planet Earth. Quasha’s writing takes its planetary time to heart. The rhetorical resonance of his prose reveals the complexities of why poetry matters. What are the reasons people search for exits in thought and word, why are exits needed? Why take leave of what has taken so much effort and time to arrive, and to create? Is human consciousness an inevitable contradiction of its existence? Quasha’s principles are tuned to the Anthropocene. Listen carefully, and jump in.
—Andrew Levy