IS there a real new interest in poetry/architecture among poets these days?
Or are we extrapolating from a few conversations at a conference?
This is simply a question I'm asking.
If there really is such a trend...
does this mean that poetry is moving from
open form to disjunctive form back to closed form ?
does it have anything to do with moves toward "closure" in other realms?
The drive of physicists nowadays for a single Theory of Everything. The
hinge or ring-structure of Bush-Clinton-Bush. The one Global Economy.
Godel's "block universe" concept of time (ie., infinity is not defined
by the action of never stopping counting 1,2,3.... Infinity is actualized
and complete. Future & past exist already - time-flow is an illusion).
To think of a poem as a completed structure might be likened to jumping
ahead in a novel & reading the last page. An imposition of form from
the outside, like a New Formalist. Beethoven, for a counter-example,
built unity into his music by expansion/variations on a single simple
melody or a single bar of notes (Bach too, of course, & others). Prefab
vs. adobe hut.
Henry
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