Re: Celan said should be taken for granted (like hygiene, said Celan...hmmm)
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Rimbaud, remember, won prizes for his Latin alexandrines before he smashed
French poetic convention.
I love that :-) I love poetry.
Love Annie
>From: Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: any formalists...
>Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:59:34 +1000
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>Hi Annie
>
>Thanks very much for your long and careful post. I should say that anyone
>familiar with Annie's practice would know that she is far from a
>neo-formalist nazi, and should not assume that her knowledge of prosody
>means anything prescriptive.
>
>Perhaps it's kind of nerdy to admit it, like being fascinated by the
>engines
>of cars, but metrical play has from the beginning been a major part of my
>own practice. The first poem I remember consciously writing at ten was a
>Shakespearean sonnet, written because the children's encyclopaedia I had
>explained what it was and I was fascinated to try it out for myself. After
>that I spent years copying every poet who caught my fancy or imagination,
>from Alfred Noyes to Lewis Carroll to Eliot (I admired extravagantly
>wherever I looked as a child). Part of the fun of writing fantasy novels
>is
>that I get to return to those childhood pleasures of formal rhyme and metre
>- recently I wrote several rubaiyatt a la Robert Fitzgerald, a blues song,
>a
>ghazal and some cod Gilgamesh...
>
>I don't bother much with rhyming otherwise in my poetry, I'm trying to play
>with other things, other kinds of expressiveness. But I'm totally with
>Annie on the importance of prosody as a skill. Like all skills, it can be
>learned, and the more skills you have, the wider your range of
>expressiveness and the more rules you can break. It's part of the craft
>Celan said should be taken for granted (like hygiene, said Celan...hmmm) -
>Rimbaud, remember, won prizes for his Latin alexandrines before he smashed
>French poetic convention.
>
>Best
>
>Alison
>
>PS A general reminder to snip posts and to keep only what's relevant at the
>bottom...
>
>
>
>Alison Croggon
>
>Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
>Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
>Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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