[New-Poetry] Eratophobia: fear of poetry (& the end of Nat'l Poetry Slag ...

[Jeff Newberry]

Oh really, Tad?  Prithee, do tell, do tell!

Really, I want to know more.  I'm very interested in the chapbook as a form
itself & all that it might imply.

I've got one chapbook completed (& am shopping at contests).  I've got
another idea for one that would be facing-page translations of my own work
into Spanish.

Jeff Newberry

On 5/5/07, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org> wrote:
>
> Well, as Richard Hug osays, "You have to be silly to write poems at
> all." So this strikes me as no sillier than any other organizational
> method. What about that book of Asbery's where the poems are arranged in
> chronological order by title. I figure this is the way Turco sees,
> hears, feels his poetry divided. For that matter, I'm preparing a
> chapbook for release this summer, in which all the poems are in the same
> form. (Cue for "Oh, really, Tad? That's fascinating! Tell us more about
> it! When can we order a copy?")
>
> JforJames at aol.com wrote:
> > In a message dated 5/5/2007 12:58:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > Opus40-01 at opus40.org writes:
> >
> >     don't think, for Turco, that it's at all strange for a division,
> that
> >     being an issue that's so important to him.
> >
> >
> > Turco talked a bit about the 60s and 70s when he felt like an outsider
> > (as a formalist) in the poetry community. He spoke about how he got
> > into compiling The Book of Forms. He said there wasn't any comparable
> > book available at the time. I'm not sure if he was exagerating on that
> > point. Probably he meant his guidebook was to be morre comprehensive
> > than anything else available at the time. Some of the formally
> > inclined on the list could probably shed some light on the dark ages
> > of  formalist poetry, when versifiers were hiding the catacombs and
> > writing their poems on winding sheets of the dead.
> >
> > Someone else might know whether Turco's books contain a mix of free
> > and formal poetry? If they do, then it strikes me as very odd to
> > separate out the two modes in one's corpus. I think if you're going to
> > publish both kinds then you should see them as complementary in some
> > way and not something to quarantined apart. I would think that it'd be
> > desirable that one's readers could encounter a villanelle on page 98
> > and turn to an unmetered, sans rime narrative on p.  99, and so on
> > through the collection.
> > Finnegan
> >
> >
> >
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