[New-Poetry] Art of Finding, Linda Gregg's essay

[JforJames at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/18/2006 6:33:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net writes:

Can't help but take this opportunity to say, with a nod to  Prof. Graham, 
that I'm ready to write off Gregg's article as crap   without even reading it, 
James.  But I'll read it.  It may give me  something to slam in my blog entry 
for  tomorrow.



Bob, I think you'll like it...it's partly advocating using our visual  senses 
more fully,
with deep scrutiny and a wide-open aperture. Something that a vizpo poet  
couldn't too strenously disagree with. Here thesis, I think, is that the  
'poetic' doesn't come from language
and thus shouldn't start there; the poetic is resident in world around  us 
and that's
should be where we should first turn to find the poem. We then convert  the 
elements we find in the world into the verbal images and diction that will  
convey them to reader. If you start in language you'll end up with more hollow  
poem.
 
FYI...This may be my last post for next 10 days. I know you'll miss  me.
Finnegan
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