> i wonder are there any other spaces, metaphorically internal spaces, that
> the listener/reader/interactor and poem collaborate to create?
>
Well, there's the Endless Void, the Bottomless Pit, the place where, as
Celan says, you 'say Never', the Unplugged Hole for That Sinking Feeling,
the Gap, as in 'Mind that..', the Seven Days of the Week, the normative
waking experience of urban rootlessness, What Happens When a Mirror Looks
into a Mirror and, with an appalingly cliche'd feel of sci-fi hokum physics,
something rather quantum, and thereby non-localised, like a little weeny
Black Hole all of your very own, which is possibly a gateway, Cap'n, into
who knows what other dimensions, and Life, Jim, but not as we know it.
No wonder there's Klingons on the starboard bow, but you may not know that
record.
db
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From: komninos zervos <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 12:43 AM
Subject: landscape
> thanks to all who responded to my spatial nature of poetry enquiries, i'm
> reading 'the poetics of space', gaston bauchelard, at the moment, great
> stuff about the of the moment poetic experience, the non-cognitive,
> pre-thought response to a word, a line, a poem, which makes it a poetic
> moment.
> this indeed is one kind of space that poetry happens.
> even though i might not agree with his 'reverberation of the soul'
> explanation, the reverberation of the psyche, as the poetic moment makes
> sense.
> there are other spaces that the reader/user of poetry creates with the
poem.
> there is a cognitive space, where the poem develops an argument and
> requires the user to process the information they are receiving.
> there is nostalgic or a recalling-of-memory space, which some poems seem
to
> arouse.
> and there is a pictorial space, or imagery, whether single scene,
> character, or panorama, which the user and poem create.
>
> i wonder are there any other spaces, metaphorically internal spaces, that
> the listener/reader/interactor and poem collaborate to create?
>
> and seeing as this list has so many rural romantics, perhaps someone can
> try to explain why so much contemporary australian poetry, in particular,
> is still so tied to landscape type poetry?
>
> regards
> a poet
> is a poet
> is a poet is a poet
>
> komninos
> poet
>
> komninos's cyberpoetry site http://student.uq.edu.au/~s271502
> cyberpoet@slv site http://www.experimedia.vic.gov.au/cyberpoet/
> komninos zervos, tel. +61 7 5552 8872
> lecturer in cyberStudies,
> school of arts,
> gold coast campus,
> griffith university,
> pmb 50, gold coast mail centre
> queensland, 9726
> australia.
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