Ghost Opera: Performative Words & Situations
By a path that, in its own way, is also negative, the poet comes to the brink of language. And that brink is called silence, blank page. A silence that is like a lake, a smooth and compact surface. Down below, submerged, the words are waiting. ---- Octavio Paz I am particularly intrigued by how Roffé engages with the quotation by examining the undertones/hidden meanings beneath the surface in her poetry. In Circle, the underlying messages beneath “the brink of language” that ...