it's 4 a.m in the morning, my girlfriend's asleep and i'm about early eager
to demolish friday. while the world still waits to be i've been reaving over
some of the 'lyric' debate and find i am receiving an increasingly acute
sense of people chasing shadows on this
thread. practice defines poetry, always, and whatever the scaffolding of
critical-retrospection we erect (odd building that - where the supports for
creation are raised after the structure) there'll always be something in the
offing that'll gainsay that is contra-dict. that's partly why i like
poetry - it defies the rules - with a rather sly little grin on its face.
David Bromige's examples of 'analytic lyric' were interesting, even if the
term itself conjures rather weird visions of a huge unwieldy Babbage-alike
creaking out something vaguely unpleasant to be purchased from the chemists.
i'd like to see a perspective on this from outside European culture -
perhaps the development of haiku from hokku and the uncertainties of genre
thereof cld cast some rising sunlight - anyone knowledgeable enough there? -
Stephen?
I mean in what ways do the 'haiku' resemble west-lyric against how they lean
towards the comic and how does this relate to the form of the hokku-haiku
etc. does that make sense?
some -ic words for short poems that are not 'lyric'
vitriolic
satiric
comic
catatonic
ironic
spasmodic
a-melodic
sardonic
rumpelstiltskeltonic
moronic
bubonic
in the meantime i shall return to the composition of my critical magnum
opus - 'The Kind of Literary Theory I Want' ('pace' McDiarmid) orginally
800,000 pages long this definitive text on the practice of poetics draws
heavily on Zen precepts and the writings of Meister Eckhart, Bakunin and
A.A.Milne and will be finished when it is reduced to one line alone in the
whiteness of the page's not-Self space.
regards
david
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