Use the words you have to get the words you need

Susan Stanford Friedman Keynote Performance-Lecture

In this performance-lecture we’ll feel our way with the words we have toward the ones we need. Periphrasis is a key on a ring, a set of words to pass. To unmap lands. To dignify wounds. To resurrect.

There are things happening and the words surround them, or the words make these things happen in the first place. There are feelings in and around these things and the words brush up against them and sometimes they stop and get to know each other. The words and the feelings speak to each other. They take their time at this. Lifting belly is. The pleasure of the. I am outside, incredible panic. Another victory like that and we’re. A floating thing, a seed with wings. Third time in this place, nothing new or good governs it. What peaches and penumbras. A wound opens up, bleeds befores and afters into the sea. Essences, things, accidents, customs, fused in such way. Scraping the ground with wings of rusty knives. To be vulnerable is to be valuable. An incident here and there, and rails gone (for guns) from your (and my) old town square. When the world comes down to an old dark wood for our four shocked eyes. Never stopping, even in the face of. Everywhere the world is bare. I’m as useful to society as this drenched napkin. Life, friends, is. This living hand. A rag, a map, a pocket, a grave. So how do we. Across. Cross. As. Inside or without. Love, if you love me, lie next to. The universal shape of this knot. And still. As yet. Grab a chair. Lean. I’ll cover the next round. And I, precious you, is a monument, a style, that moves. A word is a seed. It’s not like one. We know this is true when we tend one, and we know it even more when we don’t.

This keynote lecture forms part of the series of EUTERPE lectures honoring Susan Stanford Friedman.

The lecture will be followed by a wine reception.

Photo credit: Olivia Braggs

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