(or: how to set up a perfect exhibition) It seems to me that poetic theory is very often also is relevant for visual aesthetics. See for example the concept of stanza, which actually originates from the Italian: room, station, stopping-place, halting place, from Vulgar Latin stantia – station, from Latin stāre to stand: STANCE. in poetry stanza is – according to…
Category: Ars poetica
Poetry As Survival
Ars Poetica V (personal lyric, cont.); Poetry as Survival – postscript: It is difficult to get the news from poems …
Silence & Suffering
Ars Poetica V (personal lyric, cont.) Speech is among the most fundamental ways we have to connecting our selves to other selves. This is what Gregory Orr can tell us about silence & suffering There are silences that are positive and powerful and willed by the self, but many silences have a destructive origin and destructive…
The Questions Poems Ask
The Questions Poems Ask — Lawrence Raab Watching a couple of crows playing around in the woods, swooping in low after each other, I wonder if they ever slam into the trees. There’s an answer here, unlike most questions in poems, which are left up in the air. Was it a vision or a waking dream? You decide,…
The Two Survivals
Ars Poetica V (personal lyric, cont.) Gregory Orr writes: Survival no. 1 The difference between a lyric poet and a person who does not write poems is that the poet has an arena in which to focus his/her encounter with disorder. Every encounter with disorder of any sort that results in a poem is a successful…
Goods
It’s the immemorial feelings I like the best: hunger, thirst, their satisfaction; work-weariness, earned rest; the falling again from loneliness to love; from “Goods” by Wendell Berry
Poetry – Philosophy – Religion
There is this situation, or maybe constellation is a better word for it, which really interests me; it has to do with the relationship between art, philosophy and religion. Ars Poetica V (personal lyric, cont.) – or: why you all should go ahead and read Gregory Orr Gregory Orr calls personal lyric a gift – given…
Ars Poetica V (personal lyric)
I found this book which I had left unfinished. And started re-reading: … for a poem to move us it must bring us near our own threshold. We must feel genuinely threatened or destabilized by the poem’s vision of disordering, even as we are simultaneously reassured and convinced by its orderings Gregory Orr: Poetry as Survival…
Ars Poetica IV
“I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.” ― William Stafford It’s almost four years since my first encounter with William Stafford. I keep coming back to him, astonished by his poetry, and by his way of sharing his wisdom. Here is a poem of his, which in a nice way contribute to my ongoing research…
Ars Poetica III
Charles Wright, on writing poetry: Language is the element of definition, the defining and descriptive incantation. It puts the coin between our teeth. It whistles the boat up. It shows us the city of light across the water. Without language there is no poetry, without poetry there’s just talk. Talk is cheap and proves nothing….
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