Quotes about readings

Way out over Copland's Appalachian Springs

We dragged the slopes to our feet.
On the summit, we burnt our clothes
for wood and there shuffled our feet
in the hush of the falling snow.

We had come out of the scuffed grass.

With one look back in unbelief
exhuming the long trek
the silent keen
puffing through blubbery fingers.
We pulled the hoofed trail through
the trapdoor of our unchained links
foisting for new heights.

Beyond the Appalachian Mountains
the hanging fern on pine dripped snow
on moles burrowing in gashed hollows.

We paused. In that doubtful moment

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poem by T. Wignesan
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I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed too immutable. I told my students I wanted them in their readings to consider in what ways these works unsettled them, made them a little uneasy, made them look around and consider the world, like Alice in Wonderland, through different eyes.

Azar Nafisi in Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

quote by Umberto Eco
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I do a lot of readings.

quote by Paul Muldoon
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It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.

quote by Ann Beattie
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This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.

quote by Jeffrey Jones
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