This pretty much sums up every poem I’ve ever written about photography…
“It’s true that a photograph is a witness, but a witness of something that is no more.” (Roland Barthes)
This pretty much sums up every poem I’ve ever written about photography…
“It’s true that a photograph is a witness, but a witness of something that is no more.” (Roland Barthes)
“Anyway, I have it borne in on me that my business is to write and not talk about it.”
~ Flannery O’Connor
“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
~John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
“Never deprive the reader of opportunities for multiple exegeses.”
C.D. Wright, Cooling Time