No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. — Thomas Harrison Art 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… — Thomas Harrison Freedom 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A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed.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 World cup Copy Share Image
Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed. — Thomas Harrison Poetry Copy Share Image
Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range… — 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 Hope Copy Share Image
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. — Thomas Harrison Poetry Copy Share Image
In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy. — Thomas Harrison Metaphors 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… — Thomas Harrison History Copy Share Image
Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information. — Thomas Harrison Data Copy Share Image
