With whom would you speak? The Apostrophe
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An apostrophe is an address – or a question – addressed to someone or something – i.e. an apple? The person – or thing – doesn’t have to be present...
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On the Matter of the Line
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"I cannot say too many times how powerful the techniques of line
length and line breaks are. You cannot swing the lines around, or fling
strong-sounding words, or scatter soft ones, to no purpose."
~Mary Oliver (on lines in poetry)
Translation, Substitution, Imitation
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This Blog is about the process used in writing “Kith & Kinder” and to speak of the method of translation, substitution, and inspiration by design. First the methodology – which notes an exercise by the New York poet, Charles Bernstein.
Read MoreTelling Stories
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Telling Stories – And the “Ideas” of March are full in bloom. For the next 3 or 4 weeks, I am going to post about Poetry and Writing. I will provide options for writing – otherwise known as “Prompts.” Feel free to use them as you like. April is National Poetry Month – and I’m getting a jump start on poetry ideas and opportunities.
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, “How Do I Get There From Here?” He said: “It depends on where you want to get to.” Here are some poetry resources that should be of interest:
Read MoreJohn Crowley's Birthday
/DECEMBER 1: NEGATIVE CAPABILITY celebrates the first day of December, 2014. It is John Crowley’s birthday. He was born this day in 1942. He is a writer of science fiction and fantasy as well as mainstream fiction. Perhaps his best-known novel is Little Big. Crowley is also a Documentary film-maker.
“The Universe is Time’s being,” he says. Negative Capability thinks about time and it’s passing as we begin a new month and into the celebrations of the season. We have gathered some of Crowley’s quotes as we ponder our “walkings-up” and greet the months unexpected surprising.
“There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large certainly but as real as grass, as natural and unaccountable as bloom and branch and their growth.”
― John Crowley, Little, Big
“Time, I think, is like walking backward away from something: say, from a kiss. First there is the kiss; then you step back, and the eyes fill up your vision, then the eyes are framed in the face as you step further away; the face then is part of a body, and then the body is framed in a doorway, then the doorway framed in the trees beside it. The path grows longer and the door smaller, the trees fill up your sight and the door is lost, then the path is lost in the woods and the woods lost in the hills. Yet somewhere in the center still is the kiss. That's what time is like.”
― John Crowley, Engine Summer
“But life is wakings-up, all unexpected, all surprising.”
― John Crowley, Little, Big