Haha. That's wonderful. Very zen. Very apt. I salute you.
On 10/14/06, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> On Oct 13, 2006, at 7:47 PM, biloxi andersen wrote:
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> > Could someone who likes Haiku please explain to me what to be liked
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> > In general etiquette it is not advisable to criticise before you ask,
> > however, in scholarship it's advisable to state what it is that you
> > understand and don't before you ask someone to explain something to
> > you (1. makes your question specific so you don't waste their time 2.
> > often you find that you arrive at the answer by just doing this).
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> > I'd never enjoyed a single piece nor do I feel I could endure reading
> > a collection of it.
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> > Here's what I don't like about it;
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> > Its rigid form. I believe each piece should invent (or reinvent) its
> > poetic tools and form as needed rather than adhere to a rigid or even
> > established one. This doesn't mean it should lack discipline, not at
> > all, the opposite, but it means that I think language should be
> > subservient to life rather than the other way round.
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> > Then, its single events are too mundane and sterile. Yes, I know
> > that's perhaps the point in zen or it is so by design. However, here's
> > my problem with it. I think there are enough pressing issues in life
> > that deserve our poetic attention more than a frog jumping on a leaf
> > or a thousand other single snapshots of such things. Again, it seems
> > to me that content here is subservient to form.
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> > That said though, I understand that it is the point in zen that
> > everything is equally important and equally worthwhile/deserving, even
> > the most mundane. And I'm all for finding the profound in the mundane.
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> > And I could understand that its practice (haiku) could be a means for
> > the poet to open his senses to nature, which he might've been blind
> > to, or that we are too often liable to be blind to. And that such
> > practice might be rewarding to the poet. That I totally understand.
> > It's something that I like a lot about the visual arts and get from
> > pracitising them. In this instance, the practice of art itself matters
> > more than its products.
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> > But, come to read the 100th or 1000th pieces of haiku you've come
> > across. It feels pointless to me. Ok, I know how many syllables, how
> > many lines, what it's going to be about, why should I read yet another
> > 100 or 1000 pieces of haiku, or even one more. Is it to admire the
> > craft of language rather than the art of life? I'm talking here about
> > reading haiku, not the rewards of writing it or the attention to life
> > that might give.
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> > Now, I understand the point of monotony in religious practice, and I
> > meditate a lot. Yet that doesn't persuade me.
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> > Also, I understand the point of economy or discipline in tools of
> > craft, and use the simplest language when I write, a pencil and a4
> > paper when i draw, and a cheap camera when I photograph, however, that
> > still doesn't persuade me. And I understand the point of economy or
> > discipline in tools of art, and use the simplest presentation of an
> > issue, and yet, that still doesn't persuade me about Haiku.
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> > Her Lust is Wiser is a book of verse by Biloxi Andersen and Ziad
> > Noureddine. It is part of ongoing diaries.
> > http://inkatthedevil.blogspot.com/
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Her Lust is Wiser is a book of verse by Biloxi Andersen and Ziad
Noureddine. It is part of ongoing diaries.
http://inkatthedevil.blogspot.com/
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