I really enjoyed listening to Ron Silliman tonight. At first it was a little hard to follow. His discussion on the growth of poetry, poets, and readership over the last two centuries really helped me to understand how his style came about. I had never thought of poetry as fitting into a diagram, so when he mentioned it I started to realize that the repetition I heard in his readings was part of his diagramming practices. I liked the way he referred to himself as non-academic even though he used the same language I've been hearing in many of my classes at SOU.
The lines in his readings that I liked the most were:
Cardboard box of sweaters on top of the book shelf to indicate home.
Fleshy babies incubating. We ate them.
what makes us think that form exists?
Each sentence is new born.
This sentence is that sentence.
The morning (mourning) of Q-Tips deserves attention.
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It would be interesting to talk more about the concept of "diagrams" and their usefulness (and/or lack thereof) for poetry.
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