Fixed pupils bursting into flight… I felt like I looped into darkness and sight and then back again reading this. Not even sure if my experience is what you intended but I love this play of opposites where one thing becomes another becomes another…
I think you are the first person to notice that. Most of the poems in the collection play with what I call telescoping metaphors - it's a technique I noticed in Arabic qasidas (via translations and in theory - I never found that it has a formal name). I am very happy it struck as as it is intended.
“Telescopic metaphors” - that’s fascinating and something I need to sit with a bit. It definitely was my experience (and very visceral) though I had no idea there was such an accurate term for them. Thank you so much for enlightening me. ;)
Fixed pupils bursting into flight… I felt like I looped into darkness and sight and then back again reading this. Not even sure if my experience is what you intended but I love this play of opposites where one thing becomes another becomes another…
I think you are the first person to notice that. Most of the poems in the collection play with what I call telescoping metaphors - it's a technique I noticed in Arabic qasidas (via translations and in theory - I never found that it has a formal name). I am very happy it struck as as it is intended.
“Telescopic metaphors” - that’s fascinating and something I need to sit with a bit. It definitely was my experience (and very visceral) though I had no idea there was such an accurate term for them. Thank you so much for enlightening me. ;)
There's no official term.. just my dissertation;)
Well I approve!