Mythopoetic creatures
A quote from Jack Spicer.
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Quotes
Permission to get lost
One class in, and already my expectations are being challenged. I’m really excited to see where we’ll go from here.
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On (not) writing
I’m reading James Wood’s excellent How Fiction Works and even the footnotes are illuminating. Ahem.
Poetry as craft
The proper use of a hammer is to stand fifteen feet away and throw it at the nail. If you’re the hammer in the beginning, you’ve got to be the nail by the end. Such is life, cowboy. –Dean Young, The Art of Recklessness
James Pollock on innovative poetry
I’ve been reading James Pollock’s You Are Here: Essays on the Art of Poetry in Canada, and find his reviews and criticisms to be instructive, even (especially?) when I don’t agree with his conclusions. When I came upon this paragraph about avant garde or innovative poetry, I couldn’t resist sharing it: Why do these poets choose to
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Susan Sontag on great art
Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not. –Susan Sontag, “Michel Leiris’ Manhood,” in Against Interpretation and Other Essays Portrait of Michel Leiris, by Francis Bacon
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