The tongue a stabbed wafer?
Remedial reading continues. TLS August 1 2008. From Chris Andrews' review of Donald L. Shaw's Spanish American Poetry after 1950: Beyond the vanguard : [Shaw] points out, for example, how [Olga] Orozco's Esbozos frente a un modelo (Sketches in Front of a Model), where the idea that writing poetry is like trying to "translate a text written in a constantly changing code", echoes Borges's famous statement in La Muralla y los libros (The Wall and the Books): "this imminence of a revelation which does not occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon". * The young ultraist Borges believed that metaphors are the primordial element of poetry, and that they should be both novel and "effective" ( eficaz ), but by the 1950s he had decided that the real primordial element is rhythm and that all good metaphors are variations on familiar ones. Shaw suggests that Borges had lost faith in metaphor's capacity to "open up new dimensions of reality...