Feb
26
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Feb
26
Poetics (76 Only)
The Silversmith, Room 404, Chicago, Illinois
76. How
I hope these words help you a little. It's good you're a poet because it's good to have poets around us, so I'll suggest below a few things you can work on in your poetry.
That last poem you sent me is definitely your best. I've read through the others, and they do have a bit of a dated feel, though that seems intentional to me (so an artistic decision), and some people say poetry becomes dated quickly.
76. How
I hope these words help you a little. It's good you're a poet because it's good to have poets around us, so I'll suggest below a few things you can work on in your poetry.
That last poem you sent me is definitely your best. I've read through the others, and they do have a bit of a dated feel, though that seems intentional to me (so an artistic decision), and some people say poetry becomes dated quickly.
Feb
25
text is image is word
The Silversmith, Room 404, Chicago, Illinois
The universe has no intention, but sometimes it seems to have one.
Just after having met a woman who teaches English Columbia College Chicago, an art school, I walk past what I presume is an exhibit of student work treated text as image. But also as word.
I wouldn't have used the word "type" in the title of this exhibit, given this tiny but effect little corner-bound text.
The sight of text is sign, and as sign it can move (or fail to).
The universe has no intention, but sometimes it seems to have one.
Just after having met a woman who teaches English Columbia College Chicago, an art school, I walk past what I presume is an exhibit of student work treated text as image. But also as word.
I wouldn't have used the word "type" in the title of this exhibit, given this tiny but effect little corner-bound text.
The sight of text is sign, and as sign it can move (or fail to).
Feb
20
Onceptual Poetry
Jonathan Jones, whose mind works mysteriously from the cultural redoubt of Brussels, has created another small booklet of pwoermds under the banner of his sticky pages press, and this one is filled with palindromedary works.
Well, almost. It ends with one.
But the booklet consists of paired sets of pwoermds (and one triplet just to throw us off course), and the words he has created continue to amaze and to work the mind.
Well, almost. It ends with one.
But the booklet consists of paired sets of pwoermds (and one triplet just to throw us off course), and the words he has created continue to amaze and to work the mind.
Feb
19
I Write Against Darkness
I write against darkness or I write / against the way that seems, in black, to wait to want to push us away / or against the day that has not come but will / or seems to will / and write against the dreams I must or may / and what I have or had / and write / and I write / and lose against the fight / and write against the sense that there is right / or loss or losing or losing will / and wont and want but won't / expunge the dark that rises up / or flows or falls or follows as it will / against
Feb
17
A Poetics (69- 75)
69. Ouroboros
The poem does not exist in space or on the page but in the mind, first as created by the poet and second as perceived by the reader, but the poet and the reader are always one. The reader cannot exist without the poet, because the poet creates that text that makes reading possible. And the poet cannot exist without the reader because unless the poem is read by someone it does not exist at all.
The poem does not exist in space or on the page but in the mind, first as created by the poet and second as perceived by the reader, but the poet and the reader are always one. The reader cannot exist without the poet, because the poet creates that text that makes reading possible. And the poet cannot exist without the reader because unless the poem is read by someone it does not exist at all.
Feb
13
Minimalism and Punning in the Peeping and the Showing
close your eyes and open them again (again)
It is possible that, in my curation of the International Visual Poetry issue of the online journal Peep/Show, I overstepped the bounds of definition to bring in Cia Rinne. Most of what we present of her work is only slightly visual in intent, but I like the work, and her work in general.
I'm not positive how to define Cia's work, but it works from the point of view of punning, which means it is of the highest form of literature.
It is possible that, in my curation of the International Visual Poetry issue of the online journal Peep/Show, I overstepped the bounds of definition to bring in Cia Rinne. Most of what we present of her work is only slightly visual in intent, but I like the work, and her work in general.
I'm not positive how to define Cia's work, but it works from the point of view of punning, which means it is of the highest form of literature.
