[New-Poetry] Solved by substitution of terms

[Anny Ballardini]

Let me add Bob that behind it all there is the creative mind. It is true that the director chooses images, but s/he is the one that decides what to shoot first, and out of a myriad of shots finally selects several frames that best suit his/her original idea. Instead of dealing with the visual the poet deals with words, which in the very end could also have a visual quality if we treasure Pythagoras words:

Each number had its own personality - masculine or feminine, perfect or incomplete, beautiful or ugly. This feeling modern mathematics has deliberately eliminated, but we still find overtones of it in fiction and poetry. Ten was the very best number: it contained in itself the first four integers - one, two, three, and four [1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10] - and these written in dot notation formed a perfect triangle. 

interesting within this context is Dan Waber's site that features the interpretation of the letters of the alphabet by different Authors:
http://www.logolalia.com/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/

there is a certain school in Poetry that tries to eliminate the visual for the speculative or a particular stylistic form, I reach the speculative through the visual, at least this is the way I can work and what I most appreciate in poetry.
  From: Bob Grumman 
  Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 1:14 PM


  Cinema is simply pieces of film put together in a manner that creates ideas and emotions.—Alfred Hitchcock
         

        Poetry is simply pieces of language put together in a manner that creates ideas and emotions.


        But poetry also creates images; cinema is images.  
        --Bob G.
    Selection (in cinema or poetry) is creation.
    Finnegan


    I certainly don't think poetry is superior to film-making but there seems to me a clear difference between (creatively) selecting images which one uses to make one's artwork, and (creatively)selecting images and (creatively) translating them into words which one then uses to make one's artwork.  A more accurate way of seeing it, for me: the film-maker starts with images that he uses to create ideas and emotions; the poet starts with words that he uses to create ideas and emotions . . . and images.

    --Bob G.


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