ehrm, well that was brief. meanwhile, here are some frayed bits of yarn from the past week; i've been too frazzled to post each one.
i wish i knew of poets with the strong conviction that poetry is NOT solely about images. if you want images paint or buy a fucking camera. images are important but if you've put yourself in lines don't act like lines are beneath image. you should know why you chose lines as space in the first place. god, i feel like a reverse whistler on this issue. and just about as adamant.
(this has been bothering me for a while)
edit: i don't mean reverse whistler like, poems should be narratives. i'm just still thinking a bit mcluhan-ish. know your medium and love your medium, willfully choose it as part of what you're doing. if you don't care for it don't use it; if you do that, i don't want to know about your poetry. it just makes me mad sometimes. and i love visual art as much as the average joe i think, just. g'ah. if you're elsewhere, be elsewhere. and don't tell me how you wish you were visual instead of verbal or whatever. it makes me indignant almost...
language is its own thing. can be.
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i have dresses that only make sense if you live in france in a flat, and wear them with a cigarette in hand. i don't do or have these things, nor do i really want them, so. in the closet they rustle. i suppose...
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http://thesurrealist.co.uk/priorart.cgi?ref=Mary+Beth
Mary Beth
Mary Beth is a shoe-shiner that responds to ambient light changes!
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i'm always waiting for the comment on a paper that's something like, "little kid, go drink some more intellectual milk before you come swinging your bat 'round these fields!" so audacious and so ridiculous of me, still, always...
i wish i knew of poets with the strong conviction that poetry is NOT solely about images. if you want images paint or buy a fucking camera. images are important but if you've put yourself in lines don't act like lines are beneath image. you should know why you chose lines as space in the first place. god, i feel like a reverse whistler on this issue. and just about as adamant.
(this has been bothering me for a while)
edit: i don't mean reverse whistler like, poems should be narratives. i'm just still thinking a bit mcluhan-ish. know your medium and love your medium, willfully choose it as part of what you're doing. if you don't care for it don't use it; if you do that, i don't want to know about your poetry. it just makes me mad sometimes. and i love visual art as much as the average joe i think, just. g'ah. if you're elsewhere, be elsewhere. and don't tell me how you wish you were visual instead of verbal or whatever. it makes me indignant almost...
language is its own thing. can be.
/
i have dresses that only make sense if you live in france in a flat, and wear them with a cigarette in hand. i don't do or have these things, nor do i really want them, so. in the closet they rustle. i suppose...
/
http://thesurrealist.co.uk/priorart.cgi?ref=Mary+Beth
Mary Beth
Mary Beth is a shoe-shiner that responds to ambient light changes!
/
i'm always waiting for the comment on a paper that's something like, "little kid, go drink some more intellectual milk before you come swinging your bat 'round these fields!" so audacious and so ridiculous of me, still, always...