Way of Seeing
(after John Berger, d. Jan. 2, 2017) I can say my way of seeing depends on how I say what I see, and for this, we unlearn As much as we learn, to see again what is. Time can stop. Space can collapse. We are Subject to differing dimensions by virtue Of how we do our seeing, the ways in which We say what we see. The film is one way. The photograph is another. The advertisement Is still another. Context is everything. We imbue The object of our gaze with meanings by the apparatus That frames it. Nothing is settled, except for The stillness and the silence of the image Itself, which, whether genuine or replicated, Is transmittable, even across space and time, And returns us, to our surprise, to our naked eye. Alan Botsford Alan Botsford is author of the essay-dialogue-poetry collection Walt Whitman of Cosmic Folklore (Sage Hill Press 2010) as well as two poetry collections, mamaist: learning a new language (Minato no Hito 2002) and A Book of Shadows (Katydid Press 2003). He has for eleven years served as editor of Poetry Kanto, Japan’s oldest bi-lingual poetry journal (poetrykanto.com).
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