Maybe this?
"And I think the second step for the poet who's going on to the poetry of
dictation is when he finds out that these poems say just exactly the
opposite of what he wants himself, per se poet, to say. Like if you want
to say something about your beloved's eyebrows and the poem says the eyes
should fall out, and you don't really want the eyes to fall out or have
even any vague connection. Or you're trying to write a poem on Vietnam
and you write a poem about skating in Vermont."
Jack Spicer, "Vancouver Lecture 1: Dictation and 'A Textbook of of
Poetry'" (June 13, 1965), in Peter Gizzi, ed., The House That Jack Built:
The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1998),
pp. 6-7.
On 3/1/15 9:06 AM, "Peter Riley" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Can anyone identify a quote from Jack Spicer which goes something like--
>
>Poetry is when you want to write a love poem to someone and you find
>you've written "I want to stick my finger in your eye."?
>
>thanks, Peter
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