You should read Leslie Scalpino. I don't know all of her work but certainly
the new one by the title of R-hu may be very interesting to you. I can give
you the publisher if you have trouble finding it.
Andrea Baker
> From: Daniel Jab <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:54:43 +0000
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: statement (INTRODUCTION)
>
> I suppose I should have complied all my replies into one grand message but
> I hope everyone doesn't mind too much. In the future I shall be more space
> considerate. Well, what shall I say about myself? I've been writing poetry
> for about 3 years (furiously spilling out 1000 or so poems), I'm now 23 and
> feel that I have approached the culmination of my poetic drive. My poetry,
> uptil now, was a sweeping type of metaphysical, quasi-spiritual, pseudo-
> intellectual, miopic splattering... Much like Jorie Graham's work but less
> stringent...When i say that I have approached the culimation of my poetic
> drive, I mean to say that I have, for the time-being, stopped writing
> poetry. It has failed to provide me with the type of "meaning" satisfaction
> that I initially took it up for. I suppose I grew tried of not saying
> anything. Don't misunderstand me, I do not assume all poetry is meaningless
> verbiage, but for my own purposes, poetry left me without an exacting knife
> to wield. It was too open to interpretation, when what I really wanted to
> do was do some of the interpreting. I sincerely believe that nature
> continually speaks to us, though obviously not in words but in music that
> one can hear with the eyes. One day i realized that when i was writing my
> poems I was watching the trees "looking for words" when I should have been
> hearing what was going on "without" them, so to speak. I should have been
> listening to what in my own heart was engaging them, causing them to
> be "being seen". I should have been freely interpreting "What keeps from
> happening". Anyhow, I could go on like this forever but the point is that I
> found myself leaning increasingly toward philosophy. But modern analytical
> philosophy has shunned metaphysics and so I feel I am in a bit of a
> conundrum. I don't entirely fit with poets and not entirely with the new
> breed of philosophers, but this does not at all bother me. I suppose I like
> my position quite well. So I like to correspond with both parties and
> appreciate both perspectives.
>
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:51:03 -0000, david.bircumshaw
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Daniel
>>
>> As Candice says : 'Maybe you could introduce yourself and tell us
> something
>> about your poetry.'
>>
>> It would be a better way to start a dialogue.
>>
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> david b
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