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| | Presberg: Transfiguring Form (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18) |
 | | Indeed, San Juans mystical verse represents a private, monastic undertaking, produced on the margins of secular society and the competitive milieu of poetic schools or literary circles (Wilson 14, 71; Orozco 115-170). |
 | | The locus of San Juans poetic undertaking on the borderlands of political and literary history, and the isolation of his person from secular and even, when in prison, from monastic society, find analogous expression in his poetic diction, his poetic subject, or lyrical "I," and the poetics which underlies his mystical verse. |
 | | Hence, in accord with San Juans refashioning of the "negative way," the type of thought and discourse which equates progress in wisdom with the pursuit of "unknowing" befits intelligent though contingent beings who continually experience the insufficiency of their knowledge, even as they experience their own existence as both lacking and received. |
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