Yes, yes. Each to their own beat. I've often had pop songs infest my
mind to find that the rythmn come out on the page. As a frustrated
musician - one of my early choices was which creative strand to follow
- I often pour my ear into poetry. I'll have to get Mayakovsky's book.
Roger
On 8/26/05, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 11:53 AM
>
>
> > This, and yours, should probably be backchannel, but here goes:
> >
>
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