Sometimes, though, it's good to emerge from the confined space of here and now debate and move to the margins--spaces of imagination and creativity.
Again, Ann Pellegrini suggests that Poetry might be a "resource for imagining and engaging in civic life... Part of why poetry and the other arts are so valuable is that they can open spaces of imagination counter to the way things are or must be". She continues: "We need un-reality principles, and poetry is one such vehicle for that dare". "Un-reality" -- now there's a platform to run on!
It all pretty much originates in "desire", this space of enabling imagination.
Creators and audiences congregate ad hoc in meandering conversations, a common space of shared imagination and interests.
The circus, here, represents the timeless space of the imagination that is a touchstone of the characters' humanity.
When you're touched by a poem you're lifted into a space of the imagination that's rarefied.
As a writer, there's a process that somewhere occurs in your head; a collision between the fantasy space of your imagination and the outside world, in the form of the things that have directly or indirectly inspired your book.
Where much of Rilke's later work takes place in the deep space of the imagination, he has a remarkable power to make his impassioned gestures seem palpable, but Supervielle seems not so much untroubled by as accepting of the world's tendency to dissolve: it is the circumstance in which he has to work.
During this period I was writing my own novel, In the Fold, and worrying about how the small manoeuvres I was making in the shrouded space of my imagination would amplify themselves later, when the book was finished and published and being read by strangers.
