‘ “The Words You Can and Do Remember by the Hand to Write / defy the Night”: John James and the Resistance to Gravity’
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2022-12
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Junction Box
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This paper explores the motif of Lightness, as a quality, and trajectory, in the later poetry of John James – particularly in the Equipage volume In Romsey Town. It adopts ideas from Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium.
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Poetry, Lightness, John James Calvino
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Perril, S. (2022) ‘ “The Words You Can and Do Remember by the Hand to Write / defy the Night”: John James and the Resistance to Gravity’, Junction Box 17, Dec 2022