Poetry and travel - quotes from Andrew Zawacki

Still in Paris, but leaving to return to Sydney in a month's time. Inclined to mourning impending separation from this city which one can never get to grips with, even if I  imagine, one is from here, and while not quite ready for homecoming reunifications, I am in a mood to post pithy wisdom from my contemporary cosmopolitans.

'[p]oetry isn’t merely about travel—it is travel, a geographical itinerary that necessitates openness to otherness and, on the ontological plane, willingness to risk one’s so-called identity, to have it revised by constant exposure to difference.'

- Andrew Zawacki http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2702/erica_wright_andrew_zawacki_on/

 Full article here

 

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"We may recall Nicolas Malebranche’s disquieting assertion that, rather than lead us into foreign lands, he will show us we are estranged within our own." 

- Andrew Zawacki review of Peter Gizzi in Boston Review

Hotel in the Marais Paris