Selected Prose and Poetry

Various twine

“…Keats's Italian contemporary Leopardi noted that the pleasure of poetry lies precisely in its rapidity of movement, the manner in which our mind is caused to jump from one idea to another, and crucially, as Leopardi put it (the example he uses is Horace), to one far remote and different. 2 But of course to not just any idea: the syntactical gap, the daring metaphoric leap, the stretch of the simile, must find a secure hold. This is where the scientific register proves handy.…”