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Post by william on Jan 15, 2016 19:07:47 GMT -5
There are so many poems from the reading, it can be a bit jolting. Sometimes, i just want to say next... and flip the page, and sometimes I stay to reread and try to feel the author. The authors are who I am going to list, because listing the entire poem does not seem like that is what you want, of course, I am not sure. - I dislike all of Gertrude Stein's work in this book except "Cousin". It has a lyricism that just sounds good in the mind, or off the tongue.
- I liked Charles Buaderline's peoms. They were fun. They had a meaning that wasn't convoluted. The metaphors and symbolism we're well done in that the clarity made the poem (to me) obtainable and relatable. I liked the themes as well. Time is something that I worked on recently.
- I do not understand Agnes Nemes Nagy Terraced Landscape. It seems like poet is trying to describe different parts of space time maybe, I don't really know.
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Post by Gerry on Jan 16, 2016 16:22:40 GMT -5
Stein--ugh. She's responsible for more inaccessible poetry than anyone.
Baudelaire is, in many ways, the father of prose poems--it's he who coined the term "poems in prose" and who brought symbolist stylings the paragraph, and thus revolutionized French letters. Yet he is accessible, you're right, and there's a socio-political sensibility that is still relevant today.
It's okay to turn the page of things you don't get or don't like. It is difficult to move linearly through the book--the tonal shifts from writer to writer can be jarring (particularly when you consider how many of these poems are translated so that they come from other cultural sensibilities, etc.
I'll look at Terraced Landscapes again....
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