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CHRISTOPHER
KELEN
University of
Macau
Abstract
If poetry has
had a diasporatic posture, then poetry’s evasion of
definition is the unremarkable result of the fact that, as
language is, so poetry is becoming; it is a way with words
self-constituted as always on the way. Conversation
and witness may each be regarded as resistances of truth or
meaning as finished; these are about the
consciousness-threatening prospect of allowing otherness. In
this prospect lies the ‘scope of indirection’ – that range
of the possible which intention cannot determine, because
the truly open dialogue will not be gainsaid in its
implications or effects. It is in this sense that the
meaning of poetry (as minimally negotiated between author
and reader) lies open to the active consciousness, open as
text to be read.
Keywords:
Poetry, consciousness, dialogue, witness, différend,
intersubjective, canon, foreignness |
