Hi Barry,
My approach was not too close an interpretation of da capo, although I used three
line line verses of three words. I was being a bit free and associative in a
number of ways while also thinking of form. The repeat idea partly began with the
word 'fell' which I wanted to use in various ways, including the old sense of
deadly. For some reason it is a word that I was thinking of as I walked to the
bus stop, perhaps because I had a bad fall recently walking along a street (a
different street).
The poem is a real 'snap' in the moment in that I wrote it entire on the bus
trip. I was also thinking of music I had been listening to before leaving home,
Glenn Gould's 1955 recording of Bach, including Aria Da Capo. There is something
about them, and about much of Bach (the cello suites, also, for instance), that
sustains me at certain times, if that doesn't sound too sentimental.
Cheers,
Jill
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Jill Jones
www.jilljones.com.au
On Fri May 27 0:35 , Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> sent:
>Jill,
>
>After a number of readings in which I was mainly preoccupied with syntactical
relationships (partly because of the lack of punctuation), I'm still intrigued.
Interesting to consider as well in light of this wikipedia description:
>
>The text for a da capo aria was typically a poem or other verse sequence written
in two strophes, the first for the A section (hence repeated later) and the
second for B. Each strophe consisted of from three to six lines, and terminated
in a line containing a masculine ending.
>
>Barry
>
> On Thu, 26 May 2011 02:53:57 +0000, [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]>
wrote:
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>>Aria da capo
>>
>>fixtures and rain
>>fell to scatter
>>dark mark paver
>>
>>fall drug cold
>>but aria comes
>>I am capable
>>
>>nothing halts tempo
>>today cornered fell
>>but arcs win
>>
>>________________________
>>Jill Jones
>>
>>www.jilljones.com.au
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