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  What the Things Sang (Paperback) By (author) Giles Goodland

  

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  Short Description for What the Things SangIf Johnson believed that objects held primacy over language, why did he compose his dictionary following the arbitrary rule of alphabetical order? If poems are engaged in the language-game of giving information, how should that information be arranged? This sequence of poems offers a number of possible and less possible answers to such questions.
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  • Publisher: Shearsman Books
  • Published: 15 May 2009
  • Format: Paperback 112 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
  • ISBN 13: 9781848610545 ISBN 10: 1848610548
  • Sales rank: 628,899

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• If Johnson believed that objects held primacy over language, why did he compose his dictionary following the arbitrary rule of alphabetical order? If (to contradict Wittgenstein) poems are engaged in the language-game of giving information, how should that information be arranged? If Blake had, when he heard ringing in the trees, picked up the phone, what information would the things have sung to him? If Heraclitus had not been struck with his own lightning, would he be less fragmented to us now? This sequence of poems presents a number of possible and less possible answers to these questions. But more questions arise on the way.