[New-Poetry] Nonsense

[Anny Ballardini]

A

L

B

ino

 

spider

entangled in the wire

meant to be /uncommon

lost without a lyre

 

detected selected unprotected

exposed to the moony moose

and in its misuse

found to be obtuse

 

the angle

not to be untangled

while the kite of the knight

flattened without zephyr's zinc white.



  From: opus40-01 at opus40.org 
  Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 3:25 AM




  I agree completely with Ryan on this one. There may a demand for for poetry, or fiction, as a general business, but there's no specific demand for your poem, or your novel -- if it's any good. There may be a demand for a fictionalizaion of Bill Clinton with lots of sex, or for the return of Hannibal Lecter, but nobody is sitting around saying "What we need is a really good poem about an albino spider -- who can we get to write it?"

  On Fri May 12 20:13 , JforJames at aol.com sent:


      1 AN INVENTED GOAL. Nobody, previously, wanted Gosky Patties made, just as no one wants a poem made. There is the occasional requirement of poets laureate to memorialize a bridge, but that hardly counts. In general, one does not ?find a need and fill it,? as Henry Ford urged inventors to do. There is no need which precedes either nonsense or a poem. The creator is entertaining him or herself. 

    This is perhaps why so much of K Ryan's poetry strikes me as slight. She has so
    little ambition at the outset of the endeavor. Men may not die each day for
    the lack (pace Williams) but there should be some import attached to the 
    project of making poems in this world.
    Finnegan


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