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hörensagen | heren seien | hyere-zigginge
S: In the juridical sense, hearsay is inadmissible in court. Spoken by someone who cannot be summoned, and therefore unable to be cross-examined, it attempts to substantiate some truth: She said the light was green, the air clear. Information cast out of one speaker ends up in another’s mouth.
This is the material that interests me: words that hang around in ears and mouths. Hearsay shares in the hyper-portability of song, which can make contact across distance. I am looking for poems with winging motion—work that is sly, resonant, counterfeit, and vertiginous.
C: There is no ideal hearer-speaker. Hearsay is the point of deictic reference. An arrival and a departure, it is material that cannot be fully corroborated. Speech, hearing—both here are integral to the making of the poem. Hearsay is conjecture, is rumor, is echo both playful and serious. I’m interested in poems that can’t quite find their source, sound, or even rhythm; whose speaker is, at times, unable to be located or perhaps unwilling to locate.
This is the material that interests me: words that hang around in ears and mouths. Hearsay shares in the hyper-portability of song, which can make contact across distance. I am looking for poems with winging motion—work that is sly, resonant, counterfeit, and vertiginous.
C: There is no ideal hearer-speaker. Hearsay is the point of deictic reference. An arrival and a departure, it is material that cannot be fully corroborated. Speech, hearing—both here are integral to the making of the poem. Hearsay is conjecture, is rumor, is echo both playful and serious. I’m interested in poems that can’t quite find their source, sound, or even rhythm; whose speaker is, at times, unable to be located or perhaps unwilling to locate.