well this is interesting! don't quite know what to make of it, there's
so much of which to make something. ha.
KS
On 22/05/07, Bob Marcacci <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Aussie, Canadian and Finn ears welcome. Listen to i-outlaw
> <http://i-outlaw.blogspot.com/> also featuring fine poetry by:
>
> - Ren Powell
> - Luis H. Valadez
> - Amy Bernier
> - K. Silem Mohammad
> - Amber Nelson
> - Steven Schroeder
> - Emmy Pérez
> - Erik Rzepka
> - Tim Martin
> - Shanna Compton
>
> "One of the pleasures of poetry is inhabiting that world-creating space. Iım
> not saying there is no real world (but when is the last time you heard
> anything real?) or that the world is simply a product of our language
> (please pass the margarine) but rather that the world is colored by our
> words, shaped by our grammar, valued by our metaphors. But poetry is not an
> illustration of philosophy and while such ideas as these are relevant (who
> are you calling an idea?), whatıs necessary about poems is the way they make
> their own logic, quite different than the logic of philosophical ideas about
> imitation or representation."
>
> I have a poem in "My Way: Speeches and Poems" that touches on this:
> DONıT BE SO SURE
> (DONıT BE SAUSSURE)
>
> My cup is my cap
> & my cap is my cup
> When the coffee is hot
> It ruins my hat
> We clap and we slap
> Have sup with our pap
> But wonıt someone please
> Get me a drink
>
> - Charles Bernstein
> from a 1999 interview with Bradford Senning.
>
> Spread the word far and wide. Don't forget to enter our contest to win a
> free book of poetry! Listen to i-outlaw now and find out how...
>
> --
> Bob Marcacci
> <http://marcacci.blogspot.com/>
>
> Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
> - Michel de Montaigne
>
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