“‘You’d think so,’ says the poet and aphorist Don Paterson. ‘But there’s absolutely no evidence of it.’ As he sees it, the aphorism is a different thing altogether from what he calls ‘wisdom literature’. Yet aphorisms " even though they haven’t much of a tradition in the anglophone world " are poking green shoots into […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:04PM on December 21, 2018