Yesterday I announced I was reading Louis Zukofsky’s “A”. The poem is decidedly written in the mode of free verse – most parts of it anyway. But imagine my surprise when, at the end of Part 8, I’m reading along and happen upon a Ballade. Right in the middle of the poem.
Zukofsky was a Modernist. [...]
To what extent do you make an attempt to understand a poet’s purposes? Or should you?
I suspect that many readers do not take the time to understand a particular poet’s poetic, or weltanschauung, before delving into a reading experience. But I think in many cases, they should.
I recently had a copy of Louis Zukofsky’s “A” [...]
Just dropping in to make a few short announcements. Sorry for the brevity, but these must be mentioned and I haven’t much time. I’ll write more later:
The Twitter poem experiment for National Poetry Month went very well. While I wasn’t much impressed with some of the poems I wrote for Twitter distribution, it seems my [...]
Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher, wrote Simulations and Simulacra in the early 1980s. In this book, Baudrillard takes on two major themes of a postmodern society that lead to an interesting problem: the loss of the Real.
For this entry, I will focus just on the simulacra of Simulations and Simulacra in the context of the [...]
After surveying the poetry blogosphere I’ve settled on there being about 5 different types of poetry blogs online today. There are different variations of the 5, but I think we can settle on placing them into 5 categories and I’ll outline those for you with some recommendations on which are the best blogs to read [...]
Hyperbole and World Class Poetry is inviting guest writers to submit their original articles on poetry and poetics. No poetry, please. We are just taking submissions for articles, interviews, reviews, and discussions on poetics.
If you read the Hyperbole Submission Guidelines then you’ll get a pretty good idea of what I’m looking for. If you need [...]
I received a copy of Itinerary by the late Reginald Shepherd, compliments of John Gallaher. It is not often that I read through an entire work of a poet, even a small one, and marvel. Over the years I’ve had the pleasure of reading certain Reginald Shepherd poems and I’ve enjoyed them, though I’ve never [...]
I had intended for this series to be a three-part series. But I found myself digressing into a lengthy discussion on technology in the previous post. I found it to be necessary because I believe technology will be an integral part to creating and publishing literature in the 21st century. We do not yet know [...]
I’m splitting this discussion of poetics into three blog posts. I like to make good on my promises so here’s the first part of my discussion on the future of the epic. I’ll start with its past.
For the purpose of this discussion I’m breaking poetic history down into three periods: The pre-literate, the literate, and [...]
For three whole days I was away from home, sleeping in a tent by night and spending half a day at the Dover Public Library or, as was the case yesterday, two hours at an independent book store tapping into the merchant’s hot spot. I had no problems with my laptop computer or the public [...]