"Poetry comes at things through particulars, by means of images, and it doesn't deal so easily with generalities. Its mode is to cherish without limit. You could say it is idolatrous art. Some poems, the great poems, are true to their specific situations deep down, but they also have a universal quality that lets them live again and again, even in apparently unrelated circumstances." -Galway Kinnell
Thursday, September 18, 2008
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I got used to adding comments while we were doing the idolatrous renga. These lines are inpored by the Drake Equation. See http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/origins/drake.html . Now excuse me while I go play with my pocket calculator.
Luba, take a look at some of the comments in the Idolatrous Art kasen. B/c we were using found poetry, we tried to footnote some of our references, allusions, etc. I suppose this is the modern day blog version of the old traditional Japanese forms...
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I got used to adding comments while we were doing the idolatrous renga. These lines are inpored by the Drake Equation. See http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/origins/drake.html . Now excuse me while I go play with my pocket calculator.
"inpored"? I meant "inspired".
Luba, take a look at some of the comments in the Idolatrous Art kasen. B/c we were using found poetry, we tried to footnote some of our references, allusions, etc. I suppose this is the modern day blog version of the old traditional Japanese forms...
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