Writing about a new kind of language in poetry that is at "variance" with "what normally goes for things and words," Christopher Middleton writes: "The variance may be slight, but if it is true, if it fulgurates with truth, then a new sensibility has entered the evolutionary dynamic, rising up, under unthinkable pressure, from the depths." "Introduction," in Bolshevism in Art (Manchester, UK: Carcanet New Press, 1978), p. 14.
Writing about a new kind of language in poetry that is at "variance" with "what normally goes for things and words," Christopher Middleton writes:
"The variance may be slight, but if it is true, if it fulgurates with truth, then a new sensibility has entered the evolutionary dynamic, rising up, under unthinkable pressure, from the depths."
"Introduction," in Bolshevism in Art (Manchester, UK: Carcanet New Press, 1978), p. 14.