The poems anticipate death but hold it off — they filibuster — by transfiguring it into comic forms.
By Dan Chiasson Ashbery's poems anticipate but hold off death by transfiguring it into comic forms.
Or, to put it another way: without the need to flee from pain by transfiguring it, you would not have the energy to endure the suffering, the solitude, and the uncertainty that are part and parcel of artistic expression.
It's a self-aware way of reframing the role of photography in his relationships, by transfiguring it from a communication tool into a collaborative project.
Roth's material, however, is transfigured by his talent as a writer.
"Asda Reading Material," by Steve Anderson.
Addressing the thousands of faithful who had gathered inside and outside the Church of the Holy Trinity, Benedict said, "Let the church be renewed by sainted priests, transfigured by the grace of he who makes everything new".
"It immediately became the catalyst for Kerouac's critical breakthrough as a writer, transfiguring his approach to the material stored in his memory and recorded in his journals," said the auction house.
Her head and her hands are transfigured by the welter of stuff around them, stuff taken, as it were, from the dressing-up box - so they are granted nakedness.
"I want these things constantly to be transfigured by someone's attention, by what it means to them".
