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>It's too late for me... in all sorts of ways I mean.< I wasn't thinking you had that aim Luke :) I like the idea of creative mishearing. For instance the kind I am thinking of on hearing 'coherence' would immediately substitute 'conference' On 14 June 2018 at 07:46, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > It's too late for me... in all sorts of ways I mean. > > Interesting reply though. I think that if I were a poet I would not be > part of the scene, and who wants that: > > *I think Olson suggests that moral perception, “**decently** what one can > know” (p252), adds etymological traction to our use of words. He enthuses > about the “non-literate... non-historical constant daily experience of > tracking **any **word” (250), and then claims that the literary is one > half of a bisected parabala, so that the other, “typos”, my “bent”, “keeps > all accompany circumstance” (p251). So despite Christensen's claim that > Olson's insistence on experience “adds nothing to the discipline”, I think > Olson's **Collected Prose** argues for a complex musical diction without > the explicit study of etymology, even as a study of literature is necessary > to orientate that to “the scene today” (p252). Of course, the fact that > many contemporary poets do explicitly study linguistics complicates the > possibility of the latter.* > > > Luke > > On 14 June 2018 at 07:42, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> I think this is another symptom of the way in which an emphasis has >> shifted from the aim of 'poetry' being production of poetry to that of >> acquiring the status of 'poet'. So it doesn't matter whether you produce >> 'original' work but rather you exist within an apparatus wherein the title >> to work is assigned to you. >> >> On 14 June 2018 at 02:04, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> not acknowledging your source text* as you write*? >>> >>> So e.g. if I can write a poem using 'April is the cruelest month' and in >>> some sense free myself of its original meaning? >>> >>> I have two months to read about it if it is a thing, as I hope. >>> >>> Luke >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following >>> link: >>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-I >>> RISH-POETS&A=1 >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following >> link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH- >> IRISH-POETS&A=1 >> > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1