## Metadata - Author: [[Brenda Hillman and Brian Teare]] - Full Title: Three Talks - Category: #books ## Highlights - I’ve come to think of Zoom as a kind of quilt of imagined universes. ([Location 188](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0D7JWRCPJ&location=188)) - Tags: [[aqua]] - I had to augment straight-up realism in my poetry because of poor eyesight beginning in early childhood. Stumps looked like coyotes, thistles were court jesters. Pieces of a busted tire looked like snakes in the road. Thus, metaphor-making was inevitable. When I had cataract surgery recently in my left eye, I asked the surgeon to leave some of my metaphors in the damaged eye; he said he would. ([Location 300](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0D7JWRCPJ&location=300)) - Tags: [[aqua]] - Viktor Shklovsky suggests the essential function of poetic art is to counteract habituation, to defamiliarize so that we end up really seeing the world instead of dumbly recognizing it. ([Location 343](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0D7JWRCPJ&location=343)) - Tags: [[aqua]] - the story of a sentence telling itself, ([Location 345](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0D7JWRCPJ&location=345)) - Tags: [[aqua]]