Blog | Duchamp and Euclid (Quoted from Charles Simic)–Haptic Poetry |
An interesting excerpt from Simic’s “Negative Capability and Its Children,” which has a bearing on the concept of Haptic Poetics :
“…There’s a story, almost a parable, of how Marcel Duchamp suspended a book of Euclidean geometry by a string outside his window for several months and in all kinds of weather, and then presented the result to his sister as a birthday present, and of course as an art object. A lovely idea. Almost a philosophical gesture, a kind of ironic critique of Euclid by the elements….In [this] view, the poet is not a maker, but someone able to detect the presence of poetry in the accidental….”
