« Poetry is having nothing to say and saying it; we possess nothing » (John Cage)
Dismantling the construction of syntax, Cage’s mesostics inscribe the name in the poem and indirectly send the reader back to the person, to the absent body made present and the text irredeemably related to its name. Cage makes syntax expendable, allowing for juxtaposition and opening onto new modes...
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| Médium: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Jazyk: | Français |
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2005
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | Dismantling the construction of syntax, Cage’s mesostics inscribe the name in the poem and indirectly send the reader back to the person, to the absent body made present and the text irredeemably related to its name. Cage makes syntax expendable, allowing for juxtaposition and opening onto new modes of connecting. Language becomes material, and the letter incidental and paradigmatic. The poem, as a chance combination of words, is thus depersonalized, and the poet turned into the producer of nothing. |
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