Re: Love Poems
Yes Peter
That is why, I think, I need the vaguely
psychotic echo of being in love to write creatively. Because then there is more
than myself in my head and I have someone to talk to. That I suppose is
extraneous and is my special territory.
Off downtown visiting the pub for an hour or two.
Cheers.
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Subject: Re: Love Poems
I don't know how people make such cast-iron divisions between
the self and the exterior. I mean if there is an impasse perhaps it would help
to question this and to consider instead that the self is multiform and porous
and the exterior passes into it to the extent that there is an extensive
shared territory or no-man's-land. Sometimes this seems like the earthly
paradise, sometimes it seems like the mud-flats of the east Norfolk coast.
For some poets it is obviously the battlefields of the Middle East. I
think this space is primarily the territory in which poetry operates.
Peter
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Re: Love Poems
Ian
It has been said of me that my subject
is myself, and that is the territory I know best.
Writing extraneously has never been a good idea for
me.
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Sent: Monday, January 28,
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Subject: Re: Love Poems
Peter, Douglas and
everyone
I agree, of course our poems should be as varied as the
people and places of the world.
But given the impossibility of
including an entire context, however innovative the form, how do we decide
what to put in and what to leave out? Do we decide based on Politics?
Aesthetics? Poetics? Theme? Voice(s)? Quantity? The norms of our own
practice?
Ian
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:18:48 +0000
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It's certainly interesting to
think about the sources and scope of poetry generally. The words
Shakespeare, supreme fictions, art and desolation spring to mind
unbidden. Other people's stories which impinge on us because we are
people. The imaginary, because it feeds the potential of the world.
Shared histories. Landscapes, both inner and outer, of loss and
devastation, as well as those of love and celebration.
I can
remember the excitement I felt at reading works from the so-called
British Poetry Revival. I'd been used to suburban school poetry which
had a range of about three miles and twenty minutes. Then everything was
possible again: multi-vocal texts, collaboration, time travel, surreal
meditations, political confrontation, high Romantic musics & dirty
blues.
I imagine our poetries should be as varied and strange as the
places and peoples of the the world - not to mention this event going on
in the background called the universe.
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