`When does a thought become part of a poem and when does it become part of some other form of writing? ... You jot something down and watch to see how it leans.' In Viaticum , Jeffery Donaldson presents selections from his notebooks that represent, as Wallace Stevens might say, `a readiness for first bells'. These proto-arguments and poetic seedlings-musings on the process of thought, the power of language, the passage of time and the promise of the afterlife-wait to see if `not yet' might be `already something'. They ...
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`When does a thought become part of a poem and when does it become part of some other form of writing? ... You jot something down and watch to see how it leans.' In Viaticum , Jeffery Donaldson presents selections from his notebooks that represent, as Wallace Stevens might say, `a readiness for first bells'. These proto-arguments and poetic seedlings-musings on the process of thought, the power of language, the passage of time and the promise of the afterlife-wait to see if `not yet' might be `already something'. They offer glimpses inside the mind of a thoughtful poet, and provide readers with a spiritual conductor whose orchestral rehearsal culminates in no actual performance-`only the sense that we are ready now'.
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