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Travis Nichols
Milton + Reznikoff + Helen Adam = Cured? ![]() In his review of the Kingsley Amis compendium “Everyday Drinking,� Dwight Garner recounts the elder Amis' cure for the “metaphysical� hangover: Thus he suggested beginning with Milton — 'My own choice would tend to include the final scene of ‘Paradise Lost,’ ' he wrote, 'with what is probably the most poignant moment in all our literature coming at lines 624-6' — before running through Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Eric Ambler and, finally, a poulticelike application of light comedies by P. G. Wodehouse and Peter De Vries.�
CommentsThese'll do - Empson's "Aubade" (excerpt): But as to risings, I can tell you why. ... and his "Let it go": It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange. The contradictions cover such a range.
Hey Travis! Sometimes a hangover’s (purposeful?) disorientation of the senses makes me feel as though everything is some sort of poem. The look of the bedroom walls in the morning. The weather. The trees. The deafening traffic. The warped angle of the world before lots of coffee. A hangover might be the closest translation yet achieved of any Tzara poem. Which is to say it’s the physical, bodily manifestation of metal incongruity—the metaphysical made physical (that is if one believes in that sort of stuff anymore). Or maybe just Olivia Newton-John roller-skating around one’s braincase. That’s sure to leave lines somewhere. |
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