Rarity is a quality by which things flowers, leaves, light, sound fleetingly appear and disappear, leaving in their wake a resonance of something we just thought we had glimpsed. Each of the nine chapters in this book pursues such intimations of rarity in poetic ideas, images, and silences.
Harold Schweizer
Blanchot Emerson Kant Rilke Weil accidents attention density dying poetry shade silence suffering the beautiful Rarity