[New-Poetry] Organic?

Alexander Dickow alexdickow9 at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 21 22:33:29 EDT 2008


Jeff et al.,
People also talk about the "organic unity" of works of
art, to describe the relation of dependance that parts
have to the whole: take the part out (a line from a
Baudelaire sonnet, or something, say), and the whole
doesn't make sense. Thus defined, an "inorganic" poem
might look like a Benjamin Peret surrealist poem, or
varieties of Bob's "jump-cut" poetry: take a part out
and it might make sense on its own, but it won't
really affect the whole poem that much.
That's from Peter Burger's (outdated, yet once very
important) Theory of the Avant-Garde. 
But I don't know how the term applies to meter and
rhythm.
Amicalement,
Alex, suffering from two rejections in one day

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