[New-Poetry] Poems about inanimate objects only

[Anny Ballardini]

I wouldn't like to contradict you, but how can a painter be confessional if you take away expression from the choice of colors? We do not have a current: confessionalism in painting. But we have choices of colors or styles that characterize a painter. The same Egon Schiele, who -for our delight - did a series of self-portraits, is not praised for his selfishness. There are different values when we go into different fields. As much as with music. 
  From: Bob Grumman 
  Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 2:04 AM



    Bob G.--

    What is your purpose in finding "poems about inanimate objects only"?  Are you looking for poems that merely provide things as things themselves--things qua things--, and not to make some human comparison or element of humanness? 

    --Linda Sue

    I am interested in finding poems about things as things, period.  It'd take a long essay to say why.  One is to find out how many poets can be objective, or escape the merely personal, the way painters of still lifes and pure landscapes--and, of course, non-representational paintings--are.  Another is to test my belief that most poetry-lovers are really more interested in the human experience than in poetry.  A main one is that I'm a taxonomaniac.  Hence, I want to pigeonhole poems and poets every way I can.

    Etc.

    --Bob G

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