Lidia Yuknavitch Quotes About Language

• La poesía, por ejemplo, se adentra tanto en el espacio entre el afecto corpóreo y la emoción profunda (incluso primigenia en algunos casos) que, como decía Emily Dickinson, puede volarte la tapa de los sesos. A veces se malinterpreta el lenguaje poético como "abstracto", cuando en realidad es preciso, precisamente el lenguaje de las emociones y del cuerpo.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Reality, Blow, Space

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• Trabajo a partir del cuerpo, intento desarrollar un lenguaje corporal. He inventado un término que llamo "escritura corpórea" en torno a esa idea. Me encanta enseñar y colaborar en torno a esta idea, porque nunca se ha producido un nuevo avance en la literatura porque todo el mundo estuviera haciendo lo que ya existía.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Enseñanza, Escritura, Ideas

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• I do have one regret though. I wish Kathy Acker was still alive. I wish I could go swim with her again. My literary indebtedness to her is enormous. She's a more important mother to me than anyone can possibly imagine. In language I became a daughter worth a crap because of her. In language I redefined daughter, woman, I became a writer. Dora is an homage of sorts.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Daughter, Mother, Regret

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• One of the reasons I love language is that concerning semiotics, language is an arbitrary sign system, which means the signs within it are free-floating, but we put them in a certain order to get them to have meaning for us. If we left them alone, they'd be like water, like the ocean. It would be just this vast field of free-floating matter or signs, so in this way, I think language and water have much in common. It's only us bringing grammar and syntax and diction and the human need for meaning that orders language, hierarchizes it.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Ocean, Mean, Thinking

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. It’s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Order, Water, Wish

  Lidia Yuknavitch (2011). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.15, Hawthorne Books

• I'm in love with language again because Luke B. Goebel is not afraid to take us back through the gullet of loss into the chaos of words. Someone burns a manuscript in Texas; someone's speed sets a life on fire; a heart is beaten nearly to death, the road itself is the trip, a man is decreated back to his animal past--better, beyond ego, beautiful, and look: there's an American dreamscape left. There's a reason to go on.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Beautiful, Heart, Loss

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