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caesura 1. (in modern prosody) a pause, esp for sense, usually near the middle of a verse line. 2. (in classical prosody) a break between words within a metrical foot, usually in the third or fourth foot of the line How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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From the caesura in his surname (which creates its own puzzle and foils assumptions of a Scottish heritage) to the six-decade output of delightfully improbable, sometimes neologistic vocabularies, chance-determined (or not) caesural silences, and lettristic, phonemic, and other kinds of sonic and visual play that combined intentionality and indeterminacy, Mac Low's brilliance and humor both augmented and complicated linguistic geometries of attention. On the other, the fractured faces are the return of repressed, now-forbidden images, transformed, reworked, reworking - markers of identity, which is always caesural, a matter of rhythm. |
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