January 13: The first true finished or rather author-made language that the reader rather than the author consciously (or unconsciously) determines through choice of contents is, of course, what emerges.
14: Learning about the days formed out of classical shapes (a poetics ready to remix & rush ahead!) is a new knowledge of poetry where what's left out is still something of value.
15: An excellent place, my heart, a god and demon that carries out my Poetry.
16: The book, giving away free poetry, may have the attributes of a single poem.
17: To some translations mean a celebration and mourning, the Soul found in collections & adopted by artists as an introductory defense of the uneasiness of art that reflects upon the paradoxes of masters.
18: Only a film by the poet will be apt to find the once-fruitful visual presentation decorative and sensual.
19: Instead of dying out here's a beautiful little haiku & book presented (two sides of the same coin); Pound's masterful Cantos, helping people understand the great poets, copresented with a constraining taxonomy.
20: In all seriousness, an indecorously veiled poetics, filed under poetry specimen, is a sort of spruced up anthology appearing from around the web.
21: Look, I write today a series of grand poems on the premature death of the anthology.
22: The title of a poem will be a lyric gift encountered often.
23: This is a recurring refrain, the divine breath that solicits any and all types of poetry.
24: The characteristics of 'visual poetry' convey multiple meanings and (say it) blank faces: a complete range of poetry.
25: Paradise Lost, a science-fiction piece, in another Pulitzer prize-winning book of poems, is any New-Poetry.
26: The ancient theatre in a single poem, all this waiting for inspiration, catches us sometimes going to a ransacked seventeenth century."
27: After a brief break I think of literary conversations, works, poets, & schools, compelling videopoems or new trends or Mayakovsky and Mathematical Poetry.
28: Having just fallen in the forests and least equipped to search for large understandings, I marked, as is my custom, four of the stars of many talented poets.
I will always capitalize 'Sentence' to mark its significance as a product of blognoscenti sources.
Again, I'm aiming for a standard 10-page long 'Intoduction', with about 12-13 Sentences per page (or an 'Introduction' of roughly 130 Sentences or so). After this I will post individual blognoscenti citations by numbered entries and not by date (as I've been doing): numbered entries appear in parentheses after each day on which a Sentence is generated. Sentences can be easily verified (and fact-checked, as it were) by counting them in sequence and tracing them to their original sources (whatever the date) in the blognoscenti sources site.
Every dated entry is given an individual numerical count corresponding to the number of times I've generated a Sentence to that point; for example, the 4th sentence (in paragraph 1 of 'Introduction' to primary text) corresponds to the 05 January 2011, (4) citation, reading on the 5th of January, 2011, the 4th day of my blognoscenti exercise, I generated the following Sentence for my blog poetics text:
"If the traditional poem is a mirror inserted between a straightforward world and itself, then it is an ill wind; the contemporary poem, however, is in the mirror, a silver book of danger and music."As I've said, in future updates citations will be given by individual (parenthesized) entry only.
In this way I am not restricted to a strict chronological timetable so much as led by a judicious estimation of the number of actual times Sentences ought to be generated in order to keep my primary document going. If I should stop for a few days or slacken the pace a bit, the text resumes at exactly the point where it was left off without any messiness surrounding dates.Both purists and readers with an archival bent should be happy. Since I regard each blognoscenti source as a bibliographical entry, I acknowledge author and textual source, & regard them both as materials to be used in my growing exposition on blog poetics, hoping to avoid any 'intellectual property' or copyright issues.
At some future point (when at least the Introduction has been satisfactorily completed) I can see myself converting my blog text into a PDF file or something or perhaps even a "Blogger" Blog2Print book as advertised here.
It is to be remembered the text as is comprises of only citations-generated Sentences, still awaiting a certain degree of final authorial judgement & control. Determinations as to format, meaning and direction will be determined by a kind of intuitive reading of the materials that've already accumulated through blognoscenti sources. Recommendations and suggestions for improvement are always welcome.
With the addition of Sentences extending from the 13th to 28th of January the primary Towards a blog poetics text ('Introduction') appears below:
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A butterfly, nude and flower, traditional signatures of the poet's language, do more than say: they live, walk, hear & have being (like fires of war).The modern poem, however (if ever there was a candidate for Ionian tragedy!), is a meditation on language—a retrievable and complex one. A refuge from the disturbing visuals of Birth, Death, Time & Self: a type of "sublimely dull" beekeeping, or a parting of the clouds, since the world is read during the moment and then inventoried into rare books. If the traditional poem is a mirror inserted between a straightforward world and itself, then it is an ill wind; the contemporary poem, however, is in the mirror, a silver book of danger and music.
We alone can be grateful that genre, subject and individual poems are just a means of presentation, as if we're first witnessing the successful artist, poet and writer from several inconceivable points of view.The poet's arable couplet, minimalist and at bottom a mash-up, can still be entertaining. Perhaps the best known poem there is (or isn't) is, yes, a confession & if it'd wanted to try to get it right could follow the whole poem closely as an "End of the World" or the "Goddammit" type & continue to do so. Free to clear the tone or style of the intelligibles, you can go to the fields & birds, like a deadbeat poet. Like faces on a canvas, stories and words that mean too many things & don't emanate from the village hearth, lie dead, even in early spring. More a contest for the best minds than a poem, a peep show of perpetual sequences and good only for fools, the experimental may be the most gorgeous jellyfish I've seen.
How often does the act of getting something down, and poetry in general, like an elf clutching at a book in a bookstore, depend on the Judge's ruling—Gad!—, even setting rules to muddle things a bit? What emerges, of course, is the first true finished or rather author-made language that the reader rather than the author consciously (or unconsciously) determines through choice of contents. Learning about the days formed out of classical shapes (a poetics ready to remix & rush ahead!) is a new knowledge of poetry where what's left out is still something of value.An excellent place, my heart, a god or demon that carries out my Poetry.The book, giving away free poetry, may have the attributes of a single poem.To some translations mean a celebration and mourning, the Soul found in collections & adopted by artists as an introductory defense of the uneasiness of art that reflects upon the paradoxes of masters.
Only a film by the poet will be apt to find the once-fruitful visual presentation decorative and sensual. Instead of dying out here's a beautiful little haiku & book presented (two sides of the same coin); Pound's masterful Cantos, helping people understand the great poets, copresented with a constraining taxonomy. In all seriousness, an indecorously veiled poetics, filed under poetry specimen, is a sort of spruced up anthology appearing from around the web. Look, I write today a series of grand poems on the premature death of the anthology.The title of a poem will be a lyric gift encountered often.This is a recurring refrain, the divine breath that solicits any and all types of poetry. The characteristics of 'visual poetry' convey multiple meanings and (say it) blank faces: a complete range of poetry.
Paradise Lost, a science-fiction piece, in another Pulitzer prize-winning book of poems, is any New-Poetry.The ancient theatre in a single poem, all this waiting for inspiration, catches us sometimes going to a ransacked seventeenth century." After a brief break I think of literary conversations, works, poets, & schools, compelling videopoems or new trends or Mayakovsky and Mathematical Poetry.Having just fallen in the forests, the least equipped to search for large understandings, I marked, as is my custom, four of the stars of many talented poets.
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