PHENOMENOLOGY 1.1
TEXT TO ASCONA
TEXT TO MONTE VERITÀ
a
mountain
can be truth
an eye
can be reincarnated vision
inherited through generations
body can be text
metabolism mixed with consciousness
can be
sentient
can be truth
an eye
can be reincarnated vision
inherited through generations
body can be text
metabolism mixed with consciousness
can be
sentient
All texts have a premeditated will to come into being. Their
own formula. Their own wet life. I watch a documentary about the radical youths
at Monte Verità. The voiceover says
that Carl Gustav Jung in the preface to a book thanked Otto Gross for their
collaboration. In later editions, he deleted those lines of acknowledgement —
maybe because Gross was declared mentally ill? This was, strictly speaking, a
falsification of history, the voiceover says. F a l s i f i c a t i o n o f h i s t o r y. The phrase is a gut punch — I
am utterly terrified. I write: Poetry is
like that / an unreliable written
record / lines changed deleted / chronology extended into the forest.
PHENOMENOLOGY 1.9/TEXT TO TEEN YEARS AND ELASTIC
PHENOMENOLOGY 1.9 / TEXT TO TEEN YEARS AND ELASTIC
PHPHENOMENOLOGY 1.11 / TEXT TO NAME
She Who Writes is Another
She Who Writes is Another
Brad Harmon is a writer, translator, and scholar of Nordic and German literature, film, and philosophy. His forthcoming translations include Katarina Frostenson’s The Space of Time (Threadsuns Press, October 2024) and Birgitta Trotzig’s A Landscape (Sublunary Editions, November 2024). He currently lives in Stockholm. bradharmon.me