Tag: Is and As

As Is

"That simple operator, 'as,' turns out to carry within its philosophical grammar a remarkable complex field* of operations…." — Charles Altieri,  Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry, Cambridge University Press, 1989, page…

What "As" Is

or:  Combinatorics (Rota) as Philosophy (Heidegger) as Geometry (Me) "Dasein’s full existential structure is constituted by the 'as-structure' or 'well-joined structure' of the rift-design*…" — Gary Williams, post…

Saturday May 19, 2007

Point of View "In a sense, too, Wallace Stevens has spent a lifetime writing a single poem. What gives his best work its astonishing power and vitality is…