Benjamin Henry

material of words: (three poems of Judy Johnson and Poetics)

1.

              transparent
              conveyance
              of meaning

              or

              resistance

              and/or

      use and quality of communication

                        impede the clear flow of meaning
                        defect in un-clarity
                        become obvious through serious study

                        a certain heft of weight,
                        to change heft to weight
                        and feel a physical object
                        apparently/subsequently


2.

words that stop you
        -like atmosphere, dense fuzz (of language/meaning)
        -like (Dante's) shaggy words
        -(like) a peculiar contradiction

about exploration [beyond] geographical
        [and] Vasco de Gama   by his song, reflected
                              all the way over
                              to the pale Vasco

        coming out of language like a fault line
        Alter-wise [is] Dylan Thomas - pure poetry
                   [is] meaning secondary or irrelevant

        no word-by-word translation
        surface use stops short of impedeing

        hunked together consonants
        half-remember
        half-reconstruct                places in a narrative journey
                                        that a story has to go


3.

        historical context of poetic practice
        Western history
                dialetics - argument
                                representation

                        thinking about  <------->  doing

        operative becomes invisible
                natural assumption behind doings of art ---->
                exhausted possibilities
                        smash open assumptions +
                                        representations of art

        parts of assumption of change in conflict
        not useful to [those] whose
                viewpoint
        has not been represented
                                no concern with inventing
                                new forms to invent reality

        marginalized: have a story that hasn't been told

                telling [the] story is more necessary.