All I have to say about poetics

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Dave Bonta
Sound and Form in Modern Poetry

Figure 1: a page from a treatise on poetics, via Google Books and HyperSnap 5.

All poetry is found poetry

Figure 2: a found poetics, via HyperSnap's eraser tool.

A reflection prompted by a found videopoem.

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9 Responses to All I have to say about poetics

  1. Deb says:
    June 9, 2010 at 2:34 pm

    Nicely illustrated statement. Love it.

    • Dave says:
      June 9, 2010 at 3:29 pm

      Thanks! I don’t know if it’s worth sharing at Big Tent or not — doesn’t seem substantial enough for a “sideshow barker” post. But you’re welcome to it if you’re deperate for content.

  2. renkat says:
    June 9, 2010 at 5:31 pm

    I think it is Big Tent substance! It could generate a lot of discussion. Is should have come immediately after my ars poetica 1st installment. People would have applauded so loudly you would hear it on your mountain top :-)

    • Dave says:
      June 9, 2010 at 10:09 pm

      You think? I actually kind of miss the more in-depth B.S. I used to sling. I seem to have gotten it all out of my system back in 2005 sometime.

  3. renkat says:
    June 9, 2010 at 5:33 pm

    Okay – it is almost midnight here and I have been at a writing workshop all evening. . . Corrections: loudly and you would *hear* it. Fingers always faster than the spell check in my head.

    • Dave says:
      June 9, 2010 at 10:07 pm

      Corrections made. I used to have a nifty plugin that allowed people to edit their own comments for a limited time after posting, but it was one I had to cut out when the site got too slow from too much javascript and too many things trying to load at once. Pity to lose that functionality, though.

      • Deb says:
        June 11, 2010 at 1:09 am

        Yes, it should have followed Ren’s piece. :-) And I miss that plug-in, but … would rather have your site stable.

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