[New-Poetry] Books a poet should own...

Sat Oct 21 18:31:04 EDT 2006

Re: [New-Poetry] Books a poet should own...Brilliant, this should definitely do

re.: "and other some such quotes"
I would randomly choose from Racter 
http://www.ubu.com/concept/racter.html

something like this:

There was once a torpid young fly
Whose Tabasco quickly would fry
It lay down and hassled
And never quite rassled
And they loudly call them a pie.
Work of stupefying genius number: 8
  From: Elaine Brown 

  Perhaps in unison so they occur slightly staggered and alternating, as you've suggested, but simultaneous none the less?

  On 10/21/06 5:57 PM, "Anny Ballardini" <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:

    Yes, yes! 
    Both mathematical and philosophical in an alternating phenomenological Calderean or Tinguelyan structure, or both, but always alternating, I think it works better

      From:  Elaine Brown <mailto:hawkbrwn at msn.com>   

      Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 11:22  PM

      And read these  and other such quotes to him till he starts behaving himself

      On  10/21/06 5:02 PM, "Anny Ballardini" <anny.ballardini at tin.it>  wrote:

        I totally agree  Elaine, we should put him in the corner...!

          From:  Elaine Brown "><mailto:hawkbrwn at msn.com> <mailto:hawkbrwn at msn.com>     

          Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:37   PM

          bad bad bob  !

          On 10/21/06 2:13  PM, "Bob Grumman" <bobgrumman at nut-n-butnet>   wrote:

              Wisdom   & Metaphor

              by Jan Zwicky

              Gaspereau  Press  (Canada)

              http://www.gaspereau.com/1894031784.shtml

              A   large compendium of quotes by poets and philosophers and    mathematicians

              centering on the topic of  metaphor.   Zwicky responds to their  assertions with   answers

              of her own. If you can find it, buy her  earlier book  _Lyric  Philosophy_, as well. Which  

              has even more  illustrations and musical notation  than are in this  book. Wisdom  &

              Metaphor  will remind you of deep beauty of math...which  most of  us  lost sight of somewhere 

              before our finals  in  Algebra II. Two quotes fromt her   book...

              The phenomenological  power of  both metaphor and  thisness derives  from an awareness of an  extreme tension between being  and  time. Thisness is the lyric  comprehension of this  tension; an  instant of time opens to embrace  the resonance  of all that is; time is  present, but suspended?held in   balance. Metaphor, by contrast, is a from of  domestic  understanding:  wholeness overrides morality, but does not erase  it.  The distinction  of things remains the foundation of  their resonant connexion.  In  metaphor, gestalts glitter:  those inflected by being and those inflected  by  time,  flashing back and forth over the hinge of what is common.    

              ?Jan Zwicky, Wisdom and  Metaphor,  #67

              To defend  poetry  means to defend a fundamental gift of human  nature,

              that is,  our capacity...to experience  astonishment and to stop still   in

              that  astonishment for an extended moment or   two.

              --Adam Zagajewski, Another  Beauty,  translated by Clare  Cavenaugh

              Anny, that  would be a  good one for "Why poetry exists?" quote  category.   

              Finnegan

              I agree.  The bullshit component of both  is  close to  99%.  

              bad Bob  

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