Thomas Harrison

A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#champions #cup #date #event #germans

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#advent #conveys #message #much #poem

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#done #things #were #witnesses

Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#ceded #expect #experience #happenings #information

In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#appear #arcane #archaic #both #come

In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#given #leans #lyric #metaphorical #recent

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#directors #film #film directors #most #own

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#art form #concern #essential #form #language

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#chords #composer #directors #distributing #far

Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#constructed #historically #poem #question #remains