July Notes

reading War and Peace.



I'm especially absorbed by the section from the Poetry in a Time of Crisis Conference: Is Poetry Enough (interesting Juliana Spahr essay here. Another essay is here).



Watched Winter Soldier. I'm interested in testimony -- in its necessity.



These are sentences from Jen Scappettone and Judith Goldman:



"Poetry's role is to decrease people's capacity to absorb contradictions quiescently"



"At the same time, however, to testify to war achieving its primary aim -- which is to injure and kill -- is also a symbolic act of remembrance and defiance."