"I am an idealistic, naive, passionate, truth-seeking, spiritually motivated artist, unschooled in the science of law and finance." --Wesley Snipes

Monday, December 06, 2004

Holiday Self-Promotion

I've a new poem up over at the Verse blog.

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in case you missed it the first time around, an interview at MiPo.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice pic on the interview! I like what you said about poems in series/book as series. When I notice I'm writing what seems like a series I tend to try to revise them into each other (into one poem). It probably has something to do with one's impulse towards writing long or short poems, but also I think it's revealing in terms of how the writer connects & combines, and how he revises. I think that's why I like series poems-- they make the process more apparent; it's not just an obsession with certain topics, but an obsession with one's poems about those topics. Does that make sense? I'm tired. Anyway, I like your poem too. The second half is especially moving. You write good endings, often several of them in one poem. Or maybe they're beginnings... Line/sentence as a microcosm that opens and shuts, and gets ripped into again later in another line, even another poem. Perhaps we just write the same poem over and over, but it changes, too. That would make every poem a series...
I also like the prose line you've been using a lot lately-- seems very flexible for you. I have trouble writing in prose, though my lines are getting so long it looks like prose. What's the difference? I haven't figured it out yet, but there is one. -Ashley

Anonymous said...

Nice pic on the interview! I like what you said about poems in series/book as series. When I notice I'm writing what seems like a series I tend to try to revise them into each other (into one poem). It probably has something to do with one's impulse towards writing long or short poems, but also I think it's revealing in terms of how the writer connects & combines, and how he revises. I think that's why I like series poems-- they make the process more apparent; it's not just an obsession with certain topics, but an obsession with one's poems about those topics. Does that make sense? I'm tired. Anyway, I like your poem too. The second half is especially moving. You write good endings, often several of them in one poem. Or maybe they're beginnings... Line/sentence as a microcosm that opens and shuts, and gets ripped into again later in another line, even another poem. Perhaps we just write the same poem over and over, but it changes, too. That would make every poem a series...
I also like the prose line you've been using a lot lately-- seems very flexible for you. I have trouble writing in prose, though my lines are getting so long it looks like prose. What's the difference? I haven't figured it out yet, but there is one. -Ashley

Anonymous said...

Sorry to post twice, for the second time! For some reason I got an error message that it didn't go through, so I posted it again, but apparently it did work the first time. AV