“Not as we are but as we must appear, contractual ghosts of pity; not as we desire life, but as they would have us live, set apart in timeless colloquy. So it is required; so we bear witness, despite ourselves, to what is beyond us, each distant sphere of harmony forever poised, unanswerable. It is … Continue reading Sir Geoffrey Hill ~RIP
Poetic Theory
WHAT IS POETRY? POETRY IS YOU
WHAT IS POETRY? POETRY IS YOU.
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Poetry Is …
Poetry is not something scattered like the wind, but an individual journey for the writer. A path, and not a competition. What is written is the truth of the poets life. Which is like a religion, sacred to that person. ~ R.M. Engelhardt
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Poetry, Reality TV And Rebellion
Ezra Pound was one of the most original and influential poets of the 20th century. Not only did he point out new directions for poetry with his own trailblazing verse, he helped promote important modernist writers such as T S Eliot and James Joyce. Now for the bad news. By the time the second world … Continue reading Poetry, Reality TV And Rebellion
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“There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.” ~ Roberto Bolaño
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LAST RITES
NOTE: Preferred Flowers for funeral… Or one flower only please; Kennedia … Angelica…Lilac or Iris And upon said date of expiration, Please inscribe names of said flowers upon heart, mind & soul “Here” Category…. In Word Media Filed Under: Lost poets, minor poets, local poets, major poets DEAD poets living poets no longer … Continue reading LAST RITES
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“It has been your habit for long to do away with good writers, You either drive them mad, or else blink at their suicides, Or else you condone their drugs, and talk of insanity and genius, But I will not go mad to please you.” ~ Ezra Pound
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Early 21st Century Poetics
“For me the poem and the poetry open mic isn’t about competition and it never will be. Honestly? It's wrong. The open mic is about 1 poet, one fellow human being up on a stage or behind a podium sharing their work regardless of what form or style they bring to it. … Continue reading Early 21st Century Poetics
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2014
“[But the man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out.] He will be wiser but less cocksure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to … Continue reading 2014
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