Roger
In response:
On 15-Nov-05, at 10:08 AM, Roger Day wrote:
> On 11/15/05, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Yes, yes, & therefore worth trying, especially if one has gotten into
>> a
>> kind of technical etc 'rut'.
>
> If so minded there is a political motive to "removing" the author from
> the work. In painting, this removes the male eye. What does it do for
> poetry?
>
I do think this particular 'politics' is behind some of this work; that
just reading another 'boy's own' lyric memoirs is no longer that
interesting, & that trying to evade the lyric egotism involved might
lead to other more interesting discoveries...
> I wonder in poetry if the nearest analogy to the unrehearsed piece is
> the meditational practice put forward by Robin Blaser? I think that
> the idea behind this is that you meditate for a set period at a
> set-time every day then you write a piece; the work accumulates over a
> period of time, there are no modifications to the written piece. I've
> tried this, never been satisfied with the results. Maybe I'll re-read
> Blaser and give it another go.
>
What I like about Blaser's practice is his sense of writing among
'companions'.... And that leads to a sense of 'collaboration' with what
we now call intertexts, but again evading pure lyric egotism...
And, anyway, it's always a good thing to give someone like Blaser
another go.... <g>
Doug
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