The short list of poets who read, influence and answer every word spoken, heard and unheard, and cried in every vision needs to hear the same thing twice, or worse, if the broadcast is remixed, then let it transfix, thinking the one primal cry, ooooo, out of which all others flow in the river of sound-light be the great hymn that beings speak.
"A novel is not selves, but networks; what we hear in poems is not signal but noise. Rilke had a word for it: Geräusch, the crackle of the universe, angels dancing in the static.” This essence neither hears nor speaks, but is noise. To be wrong but right, that is remixing the dead, is something like "a set of signals that have been repeating, pulsing, modulating in the airspace of the novel, poem, play—in their lines, between them and around them—since each of these forms began...attune your ear to the very pitch and frequency of its own activity—in other words, enable you to listen in on listening itself...."
The poet-fiction Romance of Geräusch
Rilke’s word static angel dance, here, here and here, is not the same motor or angel dance. Instead, "boring a hole in the
lobe of the ear and pinning it to the door. This has everything to do with
hearing as one born of the spirit, or as said in another place, he wakens me
morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen as one being taught. So it says
further, I have more insight than all my teachers, an insight that no more
transfers by words than life is known by the dead. My ear
you have opened."
Leaf Meditations and the Language Revelation? More McCarthy here.
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