Silence Spoken Here - Hardcover

Hazo, Samuel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0910395381 ISBN 13: 9780910395380

Publisher: Marlboro Press, 1988

Synopsis

"If architecture exists to create space," the author reminds us, "poetry exists to create silence. Not mere quietude. Not solitude. Rather it is a silence within and by the experience of the poem itself. It inevitably exceeds the poem since, though the poem can create it, it cannot contain it. Within this silence the imagination and the feelings are renewed, and because of that renewal they live momentarily with a will and momentum of their own. In such a silence we are returned to ourselves, and we discover in ourselves the self that is common to us all. This silence is in essence our indispensable oxygen--the oxygen of our souls. If we try to communicate its presence to others, we do it best by not speaking at all, by letting the eyes convey it in that international language that is understood by all without translation. This silence is not the mere absence of words; it is rather what the words evoke, what their sound and heft and feel make palpable. It exists most completely between the lines of a poem or in the pauses between words."

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Samuel John Hazo (born 19 July 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an author of books, including poetry, fiction, essays and plays, and the founder and director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Duquesne University, where he taught for forty-three years. His Son Samuel Hazo is an accomplished American composer.

Review:

After Mercutio
After Which No Further Argument Is Possible
All The Medusas
Anne's On Any Anniversary
Another Word For Time
At Sea On Land
Bare Beach
Clean Break
The Cloak Of Fortunatus
The Color Of Reluctance
A Crossing
Crossing Words Over Crosswords
A Deer Among The Peppers
Diming
Emeritus
The First Thirtieth
Florence By Proxy
French Time
The Future's Still Behind You
Harpsong
In A Frictionless Atmosphere Whatever Moves
In A Time Of No Answers
Kak
King Nothing
The Last Photograph Of John Ciardi
Leafscape
Listening To What Was Here
Lunch Is The Extension Of Politics By Other Menus
A Man Can Think For Just So Long ...
Mediterraneans
No Fanfares, No Handshakes, No Salutes
No Is The Father Of Yes
On The Stroke Of Now
The Quiet Proofs Of Love
Silence Spoken Here
Skyquake
Song For The Flies Of Fire
Swim Nude, Swim Best
Thinking Of Afterthinkers
Throes
The Time It Takes To See
To All My Mariners In One
Understudy
Unto The Islands
Update
We Are In All Ways One
Wherever I Go Is Later
Who Promised You Tomorrow
The World That Lightning Makes
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Marlboro Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0910395381
• ISBN 13: 9780910395380
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 117