Hey, Jude - to butt in on your talk with Ken, John Ashberry once said
something to the effect that if he knew what he wrote about, there'd be no
point in writing it. Writing brought him into new territory ... A great
exploratory way of looking at it! & certainly my way over the years.
Sometimes my poems 'mean' something but I truly try to avoid that - or
should I say I let my senses adrift and then pin words to parts of that
experience. Ben Bellitt (spl?) wrote a poem once about flying a kite, and
how in the end the kite was flying him - in his concentration, etc. Writing
poems is very much like that for me.
End of butt-in.
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "judy prince" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: "Fled is that Music. So Change the Record"
> Gotcha, Ken! I mean, I NEVER woulda guest it, not never! Poets should
> charge for this service---of explaining what the hell their pomes
> mean---thereby making enuff cash to pay for, uh, yeah, ok, forgit this . .
.
>
> Howsomever, let's bring our intellects back to the kernel most meaningful
to
> moi and my sis/bro POMES FER DUMMIES classmates: 1) Y don't poets know
> what their pomes mean? and 2) well, if U adequately answer #1, then U
> don't need me to pose #2.
>
> I've been watching you a long time, K, at least a month now, and I think
you
> can well handle that one question.
>
> By the way, the worse part of signing up for P Fer D class was that the
> first day this guy sittin next to me sed: "U believe there's no
CliffNotes
> for this stuff?!" So that's Y I REALLY needa know what your answer is to
> that question #1.
>
> Awesome, dude, thanx!
>
> OK yo mama's mama then
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenneth Wolman" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 10:16 PM
> Subject: Re: "Fled is that Music. So Change the Record"
>
>
> > judy prince wrote:
> >
> >> Ken, U needa provide CLUES to your pomes. I mean, despite my loving
this
> >> one and all, I can't figger out what the word "watercolor" means.
Like,
> >> does that mean that, like, acrylics would be more, say, "heavy" than
> >> watercolors? Or pottery would be the medium most lending itself to
music
> >> that flees. I'm WAY confused, K, and I needa pass this damn poetry
> >> course (POMES FER DUMMIES), so please help me!
> >>
> >> Yo mama
> >
> > Mah mama? Hah. I don't know what the poem is entirely about, I am sort
> > of onto the genesis, I wrote the draft in the back of a colletion of
> > Denise Levertov's last poems published in 1999 after her death. I was
> > waiting for a train to arrive in Metropark. Words just happened to try
to
> > get at thoughts over the last few days. It's got nothing as far as know
> > with Levertov.
> >
> > I am not good at telegraphing anymore. Used to work.
> >
> > Watercolor is a reference to an initially affecting poem by Anne Sexton,
> > "For My Married Love Going Back to his Wife." Read in the light I sat
in
> > Friday night, the Sexton poem suddenly hit me as self-pitying. She
> > describes the "solid" qualities of the wife, but concludes that "I am a
> > watecolor, I wash off." Not to mention trying to slam "Ode To A
> > Nightingale" in there. What I THINK I get at is the endless
repeatablity
> > of results: loving the wrong people, using diferent colors over the same
> > outline, the result is the same...unless somehow we can break the
pattern.
> >
> > I do not like intellectualizing my writing, The explanations are always
> > off. I cannot entirely explain what I'm thinking or doing.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > --
> > Kenneth Wolman http://kenwolman.com http://kenwolman.blogspot.com
> > --------------------------------------
> > "Only silence is shame."--Bartolomeo Vanzetti
>
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