Laura Hinton

Spatial motion

On Leslie Scalapino's 'How Phenomena Appear to Unfold/the Hind'

It is difficult to conceive of a literary work spun out of “spatial motion.” To read and consider a poem that defies iconographic metaphor and symbolic interpretation, a poem intrstead composed out of language’s own phenomenal play, is to butt up against traditional values about poetry that still slide toward the pictorially descriptive.

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