J. H. Prynne

"That there is a certain central and potentially sublime human truth which is accessible to understanding only through the imagination; and that to represent without compromise the power of the imagination, to discover and communi- cate its central human truth, requires a determined abstention from setting up or even admitting the links of explanation and causal origin. For the actual would overwrite and extinguish the real."

The fire still glides down
in the hearth, the pale season
and the leaky boat drops
slowly downstream. Like emeralds the remote figure of a
remote capital gain: the case
of fire rests in a flicker, just
short of silence. So the dream
still curls in its horizon of
total theft.

The above poem, ‘Starvation / Dream’, opens with two figures for poetry: the fire in the hearth and a boat travelling downstream: the fire (somehow) moves ‘down’ at the line break, where the word appears, and the boat ‘drops’ at the line break as well. A third figure for poetry is intro- duced, ‘emeralds’, a conventional ‘figure’ for the rarity or ‘remote[ness]’ of poetic utterance, but quickly reinterpreted as a figure for ‘a | remote capital gain’. The up–down of the fire and the smoke seems to be transformed into a figure of capitalist acquisitiveness, as the ‘dream’ that rises from the fire ‘curls in its horizon of | total theft’. The figure of imaginative extension becomes a figure of takeover and pillage. By the end of the poem, this up–down axis of smoke or dream is an up–down axis of merely economic value, created with debts and loans. This is not a critique of poetry, but it is an attack on the political possibilities Prynne had assigned to the heights and depths of meaning achievable in verse: the accumulation of meanings, references and intensities is equated with the pursuit of domination and the accumulation of wealth. This poem is hopeless: the commodity becomes a totalising metaphor, as reality becomes a ‘silent and passionless table’ on which relative prices are compared.

That's from the same essay btw I didn't write it...

"Prynne’s verifiable biography was complemented by a great deal of hearsay. It was said that Prynne had been one of the first readers of Stephen Hawking’s The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time (Hawking had also been a fellow at Caius) because he was smart enough to give a well-informed critique.

I was told that Prynne was celebrated in China, because he wrote poetry in Chinese, and that translations of his anthology Poems had sold fifty thousand copies there. In China, Prynne is known by his Chinese name: Pu Ling-en. I heard that Prynne was of the opinion that the only two countries with well-formed poetic traditions were England and China, though China’s was far better established, and that Prynne considered American poetry to be rudimentary and infantile in comparison.

I read on a blog that the animated character of Jeremy Hilary Boob, a.k.a. the rhyming “Nowhere Man” in the Beatles movie Yellow Submarine, was perhaps based on Prynne — except that J. H. Boob had a PhD appended to his name.

There were rumors that Prynne held parties in his chambers at Caius where poetry would be debated late into the night and deep existential topics would be broached, like which books of poetry it was acceptable to roll joints on (Pope, no; Keats, yes).

People said that Prynne’s poetry was perhaps the only poetry wholly resistant to scansion. They said that he spoke with a lisp.

They said that he was an avid philologist, and had a giant file devoted to the word “dust,” and believed that it was imperative to learn Anglo-Saxon.

I also heard that Prynne was regularly seen bicycling past a pub called the Maypole, where the graduate students drank beer almost every night."

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In ichthyology and entomology, hyaline denotes a colorless, transparent substance, such as unpigmented fins of fishes or clear insect wings.

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Afferent?

Cantilena??

Afferent I think meant message to the central nervous system?

(Here https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/afferent )

Cantilina was a vocal melody?

(. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cantilena )

From Latin, cantus, sung apparently


https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/cano#Latin

Prynne is really into this material substrate of language where you link song to

pipe, tube quotations ▼
aqueduct, duct for taking water to a mill or to a fountain, either in the surface or under it quotations ▼
Synonyms: cal, canle, quenlla, levada
(archaic) sewer quotations ▼
quill, calamus of a feather
Synonym: cálamo
corn stalk
Synonym: cana
spout
Synonyms: bico, biqueira, picho, torno
barrel (of a gun)
handle of an oar

yyaldrin said:

i don't know if it makes much sense visualizing a poem but i made this the other day:

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another one:

version said:

Just ordered the big, yellow one.

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youll love it. it will be your friend for life.

You will fall deeply in love with his book. Tell Limburger and your other Amercian friends to get one so wpthey can join in