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This chapter establishes Graham’s textual self-consciousness as constituted by paradoxes and spatial relations. Drawing heavily from his 1949 notebook, it demonstrates how poems in the period 1949–1955 rely on figures of silence and distance to determine meaning in the space between words and interlocutors. The poems are positioned as pressurised one-sided exchanges abstracted through Graham’s idea of ‘nonsilence’. Graham fashions complex aural shapes through play and paradox while ultimately keeping lyric address intact.

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‘Silence of a Certain Shape’: Self-Consciousness, Space and Silence

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    2025年

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  • Sam Buchan-Watts

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This chapter establishes Graham’s textual self-consciousness as constituted by paradoxes and spatial relations. Drawing heavily from his 1949 notebook, it demonstrates how poems in the period 1949–1955 rely on figures of silence and distance to determine meaning in the space between words and interlocutors. The poems are positioned as pressurised one-sided exchanges abstracted through Graham’s idea of ‘nonsilence’. Graham fashions complex aural shapes through play and paradox while ultimately keeping lyric address intact.