With Larissa, and great quotation, too!
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:29 AM, Larissa Shmailo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hal, wonderful poem and useful exercises!
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> From: Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 7:25 pm
> Subject: Exercises
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> Exercises?
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> 1. Write/read a poem that is torture to both the reader and the?
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> 2. Waterboard a sonnet.?
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> 3. Climb on a poem and take it for a spin around the block.?
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> 4. Read the first word of a poem and then every other word?
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> thereafter. Then read the second word and every other word?
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> thereafter. How do the two readings differ??
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> 5. See the poem as a mountain. Plan your ascent to the peak?
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> and then your descent. Don't forget your oxygen.?
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> 6. View the poem as a hole you're digging. How do you know?
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> when to stop? How far down do you go? How do you get out?
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> once you've stopped digging??
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> 7. Write the poem backwards, and then make it make sense,?
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> or not.?
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> 8. Imagine the poem to be a city that lies beneath sea-level.?
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> How do you prevent it's being flooded the next time a?
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> hurricane comes along??
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> 9. Imagine the poem as a hurricane.?
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> 10. Put your poem (or someone else's) through basic training.?
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> Teach it to march. Train it to kill.?
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> "The problems with computers is that there is?
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> ? --Brian Eno?
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> Halvard Johnson?
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> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com?
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Anny Ballardini
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
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