About Blanchot and Pallant: This seems to me one of the closest (or perhaps most obvious) fits between criticism and creative writing so far. Also, thanks to a science class in which we studied black holes, I was fascinated by the use of "singularity" in both Blanchot and Pallant since in a black hole, the singularity (if I remember right) is where spacetime warps and the measure of the gravitational field becomes infinite. Since Blanchot emphasizes "disaster as literally "away from the star", it seemed appropriate to think of "singularity" also in terms of astronomy and places where the limits of our understanding of space and time become practically useless.
Evelyn, I like how the word "synapse" appears in the middle of the "hole" of the poem, as synapses are like little black holes in the mind. What is more, the fact that you use metonymy rather than metaphor to convey that connection (ie allowing me to make that connection) further enacts what you are talking about in the poem (and what you said about Blanchot and Pallant as well).
ReplyDeleteyes, singularities are indeed the focal point of the black hole in which spacetime collapses, and gravity is infinite.
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