On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 11:01 -0600, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Almost
> every attempt at filming a poem Ive seen has been so ham-handed in
> its
> literalism as to be inadvertent comic kitsch.
This is one key reason that when working with television as a poetry
media the sound or poetry text has to be separate to the televisual
image. This goes way back to the Academic Renaissance which in what
appears an inversion of Aristotle's the image had to aspire to the
condition of poetry. Hegel drew this out further following this
inversion and then added the dialectic as philosophy topped the poem.
Same goes for B&W photos and poetry in a single book.
It gets complicated, since this requires also, could it be said, a
rejection of the categories or genres read as democratic equals limited
by this horizon of equality (and hence again the abandonment of
categories.)
PS... I have just found gold nib Waterman for only $130 AUD. You don't
know what writing is unless you have written with a gold nib fountain
pen. (I will have to ask Mastercard... but....) (Although my steel nib
Parker is very nice to write with)
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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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