Amy Bernier I really liked
On 23/05/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> actually I hated some of it, disliked a lot of it; but damn if it
> doesn't intrigue.
>
> KS
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> On 22/05/07, Bob Marcacci <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Aussie, Canadian and Finn ears welcome. Listen to i-outlaw
> > <http://i-outlaw.blogspot.com/> also featuring fine poetry by:
> >
> > - Ren Powell
> > - Luis H. Valadez
> > - Amy Bernier
> > - K. Silem Mohammad
> > - Amber Nelson
> > - Steven Schroeder
> > - Emmy Pérez
> > - Erik Rzepka
> > - Tim Martin
> > - Shanna Compton
> >
> > "One of the pleasures of poetry is inhabiting that world-creating space. Iım
> > not saying there is no real world (but when is the last time you heard
> > anything real?) or that the world is simply a product of our language
> > (please pass the margarine) but rather that the world is colored by our
> > words, shaped by our grammar, valued by our metaphors. But poetry is not an
> > illustration of philosophy and while such ideas as these are relevant (who
> > are you calling an idea?), whatıs necessary about poems is the way they make
> > their own logic, quite different than the logic of philosophical ideas about
> > imitation or representation."
> >
> > I have a poem in "My Way: Speeches and Poems" that touches on this:
> > DONıT BE SO SURE
> > (DONıT BE SAUSSURE)
> >
> > My cup is my cap
> > & my cap is my cup
> > When the coffee is hot
> > It ruins my hat
> > We clap and we slap
> > Have sup with our pap
> > But wonıt someone please
> > Get me a drink
> >
> > - Charles Bernstein
> > from a 1999 interview with Bradford Senning.
> >
> > Spread the word far and wide. Don't forget to enter our contest to win a
> > free book of poetry! Listen to i-outlaw now and find out how...
> >
> > --
> > Bob Marcacci
> > <http://marcacci.blogspot.com/>
> >
> > Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
> > - Michel de Montaigne
> >
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