RICHARD BERENGARTEN

These four texts are to be published, with others, in Imagems 2, by Shearsman Books (Bristol, June 2019). Imagems is an ongoing series of twelve-point statements on poetics. Some of these texts blur the distinctions between theory and practice, by being prose-poems in their own right. Two other texts from the set appear elsewhere in Margutte, where they also form part of The Albero Project: Concerning “Tree”: Twelve Propositions, A Dendrology: Twelve Propositions and Poetry, Trees, and Hope: Twelve Propositions.Cambridge, May 2019

They  can  be read as separate articles clicking on the tag ‘Imagems’.

Notes:

ON UNIVERSALISM AND PARTICULARISM
For Chen Shangzhen
Composed, Cambridge, March 27-30, 2016.
para 8, l. 6. For more on “glory” and “glories”, see RB, Imagems 1, Shearsman Books, Bristol, 2013: 14-22.

ON POETRY AND EXILE
In memory of Sydney Bolt (1920–1992)
Composed, Cambridge, January 21-22, 2009; April 9, 2017; and April 2, 2019.

ON POETRY AND MORNING, pp. 27-28
In memory of Peter Mansfield (1942–2009)
Composed, Cambridge, April 4 and 5, 2009; April 21, 2009; April 9, 2017; April 3 and 10, 2019.
para. 7. See also ‘Ghost, revisiting’ and ‘Ghost, questioning’, in RB, Changing, Shearsman Books, Bristol, 2017, section 61: 5-6, pp. 493 and 494.
para. 8. See also ‘Ghost, revisiting’ in Book With No Back Cover, David Paul, London, 2004, ‘Sketches with Voice-Overs’ 16: 30-31.
para. 10, ll. 2 -3. See A. R. Davis, T’aoYüan-ming, His Works and their Meaning, ‘Moved by Scholars Not Meeting with Good Fortune’ (poem 56), vol. 1: 177. For the original Chinese, see vol. 2: 135:《易寓形百年而瞬息已盡。》

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