Slips of the Mind: Poetry as Forgetting Myrte Leffring pattern and the use of

pattern and the use of constraints

and formal experiments disclose new possibilities of thought and feeling

Funto Omojola

each one an erasure of the corresponding page in a different book the poet was writing alongside Blotter

Unpublished in France until 1961

Slips of the Mind: Poetry as Forgetting Myrte Leffring pattern and the use ofJennifer Soong In Slips of the Mind, poet and critic Jennifer Soong turns away from forgettings long standing associations with suppression, privation, and error to argue that the absence or failure of memory has often functioned as a generative creative principle. Exploring forgetting not as the mere rejection of a literary past or a form of negative poetics, Soong puts to the test its very aesthetic meaning. What new structures, forms of desires,