In his landmark work The Poem, poet Don Paterson suggests that part of what poetry can do is enable us to relate to the form of our consciousness that emerges in early childhood, before language. As language develops the world is necessarily broken down into pieces, the differentiations that begin with self and other that allow us to represent, and so s…
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