[New-Poetry] I of the Storm

[JforJames at aol.com]

>From Bill Lavender's poem... 
one night when i sit down i do  begin to type and the poem 
begins to appear and once it  begins in that way usually 
i finish it though might go back  and change a word 
here and there or make some minor  alteration generally 
try to keep revision to a minimum  what i do is try 
not to think about it too much  because too much  
thinking is usually bad overall  i've also found that 
a little thinking and a little  tinkering can be good 
i don't know that i understand  all the ramifications 
of this wavering but as i said i  try not 
to think about it too much antin  talks 
about poetry and thinking as i  recall
--
That is New York School poetics for sure,  
ramblemindedroundaboutunrestrainedreverie.
 
Here's a bit from Max Jacob as antithesis...
 
Almost the only thing I still like nowadays is this process of scraping  
away. No more stylistic gewgaws. Tear yourself in half or else take the finished  
poem and tear that in half. 

(April 15, 1937, Letters to Marcel Béalu)
 
The right poetic image is the one found after long, deep contemplation of  
the object to be depicted.
 
(July 15, 1938, Letters to Marcel Béalu)
 
Think your sentences before you write them; otherwise they are like the  
continuous bumps of bubbly soap that used to be left in bowl the instead of  
becoming the iridescent globes desired by the pipes of our childhood. A line of  
poetry is an iridescent soap-bubble. 
 
(March 1, 1949, Letters to Marcel Béalu)
 
--Max Jacob, Hesitant Fire, selected prose of Max Jacob 
(translated and  edited by Moishe Black and Maria Green, U. of Nebraska Press 
1991)

Finnegan
 
In a message dated 5/6/2007 12:25:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
anny.ballardini at tin.it writes:

just read:

 
Bill Lavender's _I of the  Storm_ (http://www.lavenderink.org/iofthestorm/) 



Back-cover blurbs by Andrei Codrescu, Susan M. Schultz and Anselm Hollo.  As 
Schultz says:
"[...] miss it at your peril."


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