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Notes on Extra Journal Pages
401/Oct. 3
Poem of Address
--epistlery poem
W.S. Graham
Richard Hugo
1st snag Jonsonian--letter rather too public
imitation of letter
Clough (long line) Amour de Voyage
can't describe them
can't tell them what they know already
say I remember--but need an excuse to remember by end of poem
reason for writing it "Norman McLeod"
Letter to exile; from exile
letter announcement
love letter
element of news, but only as ped on which thing hung
epiteratory
fairly plaing & fairly colloquial
clichés
the virtues of good prose
babble on with no apparent order
short line?
Line must be a step not just look like one
what vocabulary? must be heightened
degree to which will be dramatic monologue
someone speaking so as to portray themselves
Flyleaf poem (give with a gift)
occasional poems
can have immediacy
art of writing for speaking voice
Bly, Robert Looking for Dragon Smoke
poems of leaping
poem of steady light
Christ to move from reptile & mammal brain to new brain --> Saint (someone who has done it)
mark of new brain, light
This body is made of camphor & gopher wood/
Salish People 1978
Talonbooks
October 24th
1) Can imagine painting, painter didn't paint--including major images
2) In equivalent of style (sweepa & jab of brush)
3) Describe self as in painting (visiting exhibition, building a world painting by painting, poem each section a picture, stylistically different, diction change
celebratory poems
how should I respond to this particular stimulus vs. fitting it into our style
Seibner--archetypal symbolism sky god & earth mother
earthy diction (deliberate clumsiness)
paradox; irony
moving out so not just different props, same script with style unvaried land with things to say, but boredom with way of saying it (stylistically doing ideas the same way)
starting in the middle - fulcrum - place to go to, and leave from - hinge line
moving from documentation to lyric, to MacNeice "Conquistadores"
[Then there are a bunch of address for graduate writing programs and literary magazines and in the midst of them, there is a clerihew:]
Robin Skelton
Had quite a pelt on
Covered with either suit or hair
From his here unto his there
October 31st
altering stance
omission exercises
1 - no adjectives; adverbs
forces you to realize language as action
poems generaly about states rather than action have to write about things doing things to things
2 - also--no punctuation (but we do this anyway)
complex sentences
3 - Without using a letter (eg. t)
reguse to use a particular sound--or word
'that' 'and' or words with 'ing'
Commission exercises
--doesn't matter what it is, as long as it's hard
sestina; canzoni
sestina - diction;
villanelle interesting, but really all you need is 2 lines
rondeau, rondelles, et.c
not dealing with basics of words but with cadence of the poems
fighting form & ideas about form (not language)
quatrain - 4 lines ABAB
small that has to slam in last line
a lot taken away from you, omissions as much as commission 8 - 10 syllables
can't have break in any line but the last
Clerihew
[The next page consists of notes of things to do, and a list of library catalogue numbers for:]
- Sikelianos
- Steiner - Language & Silence
- Barthelm - Unspeakable Prac...
- Guillevec
- Dudek - For Al
- Reaney
- Hugo
- Clough - Amour de Voyage
- Carmichael
- Musil
Carmina Cadelica (Carmichael) Vol. 1 - 6
Kunl Mayl (trans. Irish poetry)
Murphy - The Irish Lysic (Oxford)
Desmond Flower trans. from Gaelic
[More lit mag addresses]
Diagram based on W.D. Valgardson's lectures on how to understand story structure:
point form
seeting
POV shifts, returns
Theme overall, then developments each scene
Character dev. what characteristics, then how developed
Plot
may want:
symbols
why, if works
John Hawkes "Travesty"
Readings
cummings
Sevens
Thomas lelse's [?]
Pound
Phyllis Webb
Robins' Tape--C.W.
address to large numbers of people
use public, formal strcture (heroic couplets)
decide who audience is
ceremonial; celebratory poem
rave review in verse
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