Well, I certainly liked the poem, Mark, and I also like listening to you and
Annie converse about form. Don't take it back channel. It is a poetry
discussion, very relevant to today's practice in lots of ways. I write with
my ears and my ears have been trained by early reading and learning by rote,
plus fifty odd years of listening to jazz and creative songwriters like
Dylan and Tom Waits.
Good ol' Mayakovsky in How Verses Are Made talks about getting the rhythm
for a poem from walking, striding out. The heart also awakes to such a
rhythm, and if you bring it back to the page, the poem is imbued with the
pulse. I've stopped counting beats - not with the metronome but the musical
phrase - but I still like to look beneath the table when students are
writing to see who is tapping their feet. Poetry and prose, a subtle rhythm
to go with the subject is always a heightening of the delivery.
Andrew
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From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 11:53 AM
> This, and yours, should probably be backchannel, but here goes:
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