Reading for Form by Wolfson Susan J.; Brown Marshall ;

Reading for Form by Wolfson Susan J.; Brown Marshall ;

Author:Wolfson, Susan J.; Brown, Marshall ;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Washington Press


fish purl in the weir:

we are caught by our

own knowing, barb yellow hard

every yet—oink little jangler

thrums—sigh, prattle sea flood—

(510)

In the Gospel of Matthew, the Kingdom of Heaven is described as “like a net which was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind; when it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into vessels but threw away the bad. So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth” (13:47). Plato describes the periodic destruction of the earth, the ways the Greeks, who have little knowledge of Egyptian culture, remain children since volcanoes, earthquakes, and flooding frequently remove from the earth everyone but a few rude and unlettered inhabitants, and those men must start again without the benefit of written memories (Timaeus, 10–11). “Well-carved does not niggle,” Zukofsky writes of inscriptions on stones, but:



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