Angle of Yaw by Ben Lerner

Author:Ben Lerner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Should we memorialize the towers or the towers’ collapse?

Can any memorial improve on the elegance of absence?

Or perhaps, in memoriam, we should destroy something else.

I think that we should draw a bold, black line across an otherwise white field

and keep discussion of its meaning to a minimum.

If we can close the event to further interpretation

we can keep the collapse from becoming a masterpiece.

The key is to intend as little as possible in the act of memorialization.

By intending as little as possible we refuse to assign value where there is none.

Violence is not yet modern; it fails to acknowledge the limitations of its medium.

When violence becomes aware of its mediacy and loses its object

it will begin to resemble love.

Love is negative because it dissolves

all particulars into an experience of form.

Refusing to assign meaning to an event is to interpret it lovingly.

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