the speakers at the Helsinki Poetics Conference approached many of these
issues a few days ago. truthfulness is right, but perhaps for some that
implies a larger sphere than mere affectivity can encompass (I'm reminded
mostly of Mayakovsky's social/poetic imperatives, which Keston Sutherland
had good takes on). it's the larger spheres that tend to daunt me, having
grown into poetry through people like Williams who found poetry everywhere
around them and for whom form was little more than a playful technicality,
and people like Hughes who basically reinvented the world around them
through language to emphasise the poetic nature of their surroundings. I'm
all for microcosmoses, it's a route into the big picture, after all (and as
a product of my age, that big picture in many terms writes itself).
yep, bit random. my flu requires perscription cough medicine.
KS
On 30 August 2010 14:08, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I am just cutting and pasting from Alison's blog below.
> http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com/
>
> But it is very difficult not to think of Silvan Tomkins writings here.
> (I only have the Sedwick and Frank reader but maybe, just maybe, his all
> four volumes may arrive on my messy book cases.)
>
>
> Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling," says Muriel
> Rukeyser. For Rukeyser, life and poetry are very nearly synonyms. They
> are a dance, an exchange, an invitation. I would say that of most arts,
> and claim it an especial quality of the theatre. The negation of
> feeling, its complexities, its realness, results in waste and injury, a
> necrosis of denial that infects every area of public and private life.
> Truthfulness is beyond mere honesty: "If we settle for honesty," said
> Rukeyser, "we are selling out."
>
>
>
> --
> have chronic fatigue syndrome so may be delayed in reply or brain fog weird
>
> just to let you know that's all, Chris Jones.
>
> Blog: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/
>
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