Thinking over what Jim Larwill said and putting down things to digest where I can find it again – namely the internet. Works for everything else in existance out here.:P on poetic voice: Jim was talking about how poetic voice is more than individuality or distinctive style. There’s a physicality to voice. The poet’s voice […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Progressive forms of poetry
Next time I get an urge to step out of time and make the brain rigorously focus down so hard that my body goes into rigor mortis over task I’m going to try another abecedarian. But they hurt. But the can amaze. They’re usually no elegant waltz, rather more like watching a tapdancer tap faster […]
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Selling really kick-ass poetry books. That’s a novel strategy, eh? Is that what No Tell […]
OULIPO's N + 7 form
Poetic Techniques: OULIPO Founded in 1960 by French mathematician Francois de Lionnais and writer Raymond Queneau, Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle (OULIPO), or Workshop of Potential Literature, investigates the possibilities of verse written under a system of structural constraints. Lionnais and Quenuau believed in the profound potential of a poem produced within a framework or formula […]
A few senses to come to
— no smoke smell from there in our hair until we get here — passing in the hall someone else’s TV’s whistle train at grandma’s — barren trees grass bends soft underfoot early fall, still. — flag, scarf snaps straight out turn bricked corner, wind shadow pulled punch slap caress — buttered carrots licked length […]