You can also allegorize the approach to the thing you can only conditionally think about. Bishop does this: a lot is translatable, but it fades into what isn't quite. I guess that's why she's so unprecedentedly satisfying--she makes a tangible, coherent object and shimmers every part and angle back toward something deeper. Like great wine in a ( Read more... )

Allegory's for when one can't convey something more properly discursively, and will therefore tend to involve matters the allegorist has trouble thinking about. Figures, landscapes and stories are needed for the thought to complete itself ( Read more... )