whut is up
with poems--
all over the page
i have a hard time reading
this--(they usually have lots of hyphens)------
and second because they are just---
and third because i distrust them
kathy i know you know
with poems--
that look like this
all over the page
why do the lines look all separate-y like that?
what is the purpose of the separate-y lines?
i have a hard time reading
poems that look
like this--
this--(they usually have lots of hyphens)------
or like this first because they look too smart for me
and second because they are just---
fucking hard to read
and third because i distrust them
and i don't understand line breaks anyway
kathy i know you know
10 comments:
I join you in your stupidity. Kathy, enlighten us.
I think it's because poets can't draw. They're trying to draw something, it just looks really sucky. William Carlos Williams was trying to draw a wheelbarrow.
i think it has to do with a field and projective verse and charles olson or something. something about a field.
megan,line breaks are for tricking people. you think it means one thing and then it means another thing and sometimes it's for taking a breath and sometimes its for rhythm and sometimes it's for something else. trickery, all of it. that's why poetry is good.
trickery! awesome! what is projective verse? i will look it up.
you really did just explain line breaks to me in the best way ever. i learned about line breaks as an undergrad and then i forgot what i learned, which probably means i never quite got it.
so when you teach a poetry workshop, there should be a week on your syllabus entitled "line breaks as trickery."
I never thought about line breaks like that either. It's kind of amazing. You are a born teacher.
I used to write poems on overlapping pieces of paper. The cool part of it all was that, by themselves, each piece of paper had it's own poem on it, but when you put them together you got one big poem that was unlike the others.
I was also stood up for prom.
also sometimes it's for meaning two things at once which is the ultimate trick. i forgot to say that one.
neez i love you.
megan did you look up projective verse yet? can you explain it to the class? at least explain it to me because i kind of don't get what that dude is talking about...
i tried to read charles olson in grad school and it just made my head hurt.
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oh yeah, i was supposed to look up projective verse. i will post about it this week, when i finally do.
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