Hi Randolph,
Actually, I'm not quite sure exactly what I was proposing. 'Snap' seems
just of the nonce and gets to the working with the material at hand,
'exercise' isn't right either but it's along the line of the
experiment, the 'let's see what happens - with a constraint'.
There is a lightness about it, something not fixed. That's what I like,
it allows me to move.
May not be everyone's cuppa, of course. Clearly not, it seems.
Many thanks for your appreciation.
Best,
Jill
On Tuesday, January 31, 2006, at 09:45 AM, wild honey press wrote:
> Dear Jill,
>
> interesting the differences you propose: snap/exercise/finished poem.
> Unable to be terribly articulate, though I've often thought, and so
> I'll say, that, however you view them, your snaps are always
> rewarding. Well, beautiful really.
>
> best
>
> Randolph
>
>>
>> 'Snap' isn't perhaps the correct description, at least for what I do.
>> It's more than an exercise, more than a 'here's me standing in front
>> of the Eiffel Tower', but less than a final finished poem. It's, for
>> me, an experiment, in the sense of 'let's throw this in the beaker
>> and see if and what might happen'. If it happens, I post. People can
>> ignore it, but I have continued to extract useful things from the
>> experiment, as a whole.
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