[New-Poetry] The thesauragram.

[Skip Fox]

I simply used the thesaurus and picked complementary words. (I assume Hall's
process was more clearly creative, not bound to a text.) I also added
"significance" dropping "quality"  in the first line. I think that's the
only change. But, unlike the Oulipo's N+7 exercise, I thought a thesaurus
(which has less chance involved in the process, more the mind behind
language) plus a mind making choices would be more interesting. I still love
the fact that "albino chickens" showed in both. It DID seem the right
choice. (There were MANY other possibilities.)

 

(Oulipian N+7 pieces are  moderately nice to see, boring to do.)

-----Original Message-----
From: new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu
[mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Anny Ballardini
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:19 PM
To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &Views
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] The thesauragram.

 

I love both poems, can you explain me how it works? Sorry to be that
ignorant,

 

anny

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Skip Fox <mailto:skip at louisiana.edu>  

To: 'NewPoetry: <mailto:new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>  Contemporary Poetry
News &amp;Views' 

Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:03 PM

Subject: RE: [New-Poetry] The thesauragram.

 

Very nice! I didn't know of this. Mine was actually 95% made from the
Thesaurus. Nice we both picked "albino poultry." His the more polished and
"exact."

 

There are no thesaurus terms for articles, I realized. You could use "one"
for "a," etc. but these were not indexed in the thesaurus I used.

 

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[mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of David Graham
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:49 AM
To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp;Views
Subject: [New-Poetry] The theasauragram.

 

I always give my students Donald Hall's version:

 

 

 

The Crimson-Hued Conveyance

 

Such an extraordinary degree of importance

is attached

 

to a crimson-hued conveyance

for waste material

 

which has accumulated particles of liquid

emanating from the heavens

 

in the approximate vicinity

of the albino poultry.

 

[fr. *Goatfoot Milktongue Twinbird*]

 

 

 

 

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On Feb 13, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Skip Fox wrote:

 

 

The Florid Cycle Drum 

 

such like significance rests

atop

 

a florid cycle 

drum 

 

buffed by splatter

melt

 

on the flank of albino

poultry.

 

 

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