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Robin Behn

The Practice of Poetry

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  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирапреди 3 години
    We all have a sense of the necessity and beauty of language in writing poetry, but we only come slowly to the realization that language is also an obstacle, almost the enemy.
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирапреди 3 години
    BREAKING THE SENTENCE; OR, NO SENTENCES BUT IN THINGS
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирапреди 3 години
    I often assign this exercise to poets whose minds seem, at the time, overdetermined by the sentence and all its rules and proprieties
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирапреди 3 години
    Write a poem that is simply a list of things.
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирапреди 3 години
    think this exercise came out of my early delight with “Show and Tell” in grade school.
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирапреди 3 години
    t is also a collaborative effor
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирапреди 3 години
    I’ve found in my own writing workshops that this exercise is an excellent way to get acquainted, as people reveal themselves in unexpected ways through the objects they choose to describe and display
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    “An Irish tin whistle is cheap, I got it in the Indian Chesos Mountains,
    It takes on marks, tone changes,” says
    “This horseshoe nail necklace is a surrogate for 4 Corners-Indian-squash-necklace,” says
    “I’m 28 I have a bird’s eye view,” says
    “All the color washes out when you hold it to the light,” says
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирапреди 3 години
    use the word “says” after every line, which is something one finds in American Indian ritual chants, to get across the “oral” nature of the exercise:
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирапреди 3 години
    The example I include here I later incorporated into a piece entitled “Realm Which Includes an Eclipse, A Cave, & Some Amulets.”
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