‘Creeley\’s first principle is that you find out what you have to say in the process of saying it: poetry becomes a way of making not representing…Composition (including editing and recomposing) becomes the active agency of the poem. Immediacy and immanence of expression precedes essence.A couple of great one-liners underscore the concept. The first was picked [...]
Archive for July, 2008
I just like this
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged robert creeley on July 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A Very Little Sphinx
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged biography, Edna St. Vincent Millay, formalism, Nancy Milford, poetry on July 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Everything that touches the individual as an individual is a matter for poetry, but when the poet becomes a member of the mass, his vein is bound to be exhausted. The poet can be concerned with what goes on outside, but the moment the outside comes in, dictates to him what pen, what ink, what [...]
Will the summer make good for all of our sins?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged adam day, bad blogger on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ally reminds me that I have been a negligent blogger. I have all sorts of excuses, mostly designed for my conscience – vacation, computer problems, post-college ennui, egg sammiches etc. But really, I just haven’t kept up with it like I’ve meant to. Right now I’m working on a piece about Edna St Vincent Millay and plan [...]
Awww.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged lolz on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Poetry makes me feel like a lout.” – my dad
