> I usually like yours Stephen, but this doesn't really do it for me.
> I can't get enough of a connection between the bits (which is
> what it takes for me to get into this kind of poetry).
>
> Janet
>
>> Tenderly #13 or The Gertrude Improvs:
>>
>> Yugoslavia is not up nor
>>
>> An arrangement called "saucers"
Understood, Janet. These improv-trans pieces are provoked by Stein's "Tender
Buttons". Sometimes I think they hit, and other times I am bouncing off the
wall. Stein is a tough cookie the way she juxtapose words and sounds -
musically - like a cubist with pieces/strips of paint.
Often, in any common sense term of making sense - she does not. But she does
take my senses as close as possible to the "materiality" of words, as
different from their rhetorical, personal or other kinds of constructs &
intentions conventionally attributed to the poem.
Nevertheless it's a challenging form of reading. Like getting stuck in a
lumber yard where - prior to architecture - your only pleasure can be from
looking at the colors, textures and juxtapositions of the different kinds of
wood, how the different sizes and pieces are stacked or shelved. etc.
&, nevertheless, in any case, on that level, Tenderly #13 still may just
not do it. But it's still fun to play with the challenge.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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> Poems at Proximity:
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