To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to… — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers,… — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to… — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
