tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post991601563639118656..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: Butterfly Dream: Winter Moon Haiku by Fay Aoyagi Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-65425412766942246512013-01-06T13:00:01.754-05:002013-01-06T13:00:01.754-05:00One more thing I would like to add is that the per...One more thing I would like to add is that the perceptual shift (through the use of "my chopsticks") is culturally and emotionally effective.Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-39952195554948685752013-01-06T12:56:25.972-05:002013-01-06T12:56:25.972-05:00Here is an excerpt from Jack Galmitz's Jouissa...Here is an excerpt from Jack Galmitz's Jouissance: The Poetic Achievement of Fay Aoyagi, which can be accessed at http://ahundredgourds.haikuhut.com/ahg13/expositions02.html<br /><br />The [haiku above] in the collection gives the book its title and is quintessentially of loss and nameless desire:<br /><br />Of course, the poem is not enclosed; there are multiple ways to read it. The low moon resembles a grain of rice or a sushi roll and the author plays with the fact that by perception it appears just beyond the grasp of her chopsticks. The ensemble of words may also refer to what exists just beyond her Japanese utensils, the world of the Other, as she is now in America, a foreign country. However, most compellingly, the low moon is the acoustic mental image of what Freud and then Jacques Lacan called The Thing: it is the object per se of loss, which attracts desire, although it is not itself the object of desire. "For Lacan, the Thing exists outside of language and the Symbolic- it is 'the first thing that separated itself from everything the subject began to name and articulate'" (Ibid). <br />Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com