Slips of the Mind: Poetry as Forgetting Grand Tour using constraint to illuminate and

using constraint to illuminate and free the wild interior

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or dramatis personae set in time that evokes but frustrates narrative

Joost Zwagerman

Slips of the Mind: Poetry as Forgetting Grand Tour using constraint to illuminate andJennifer Soong In Slips of the Mind, poet and critic Jennifer Soong turns away from forgettings long standing associations with suppression, privation, and error to argue that the absence or failure of memory has often functioned as a generative creative principle. Exploring forgetting not as the mere rejection of a literary past or a form of negative poetics, Soong puts to the test its very aesthetic meaning. What new structures, forms of desires,