[New-Poetry] Poetics (was Poetic Justice)

[John Jeffrey]

Here's another none-word poem, though this one has a title.  (It's by Don Patterson.)


On Going to Meet a Zen Master in the Kyushu Mountains and Not Finding Him
     for A.G.





JohnJ





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From: Halvard Johnson <halvard at earthlink.net>
To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 3, 2008 7:56:16 PM
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Poetics (was Poetic Justice)

Hmm, I thought the one-word poem school was pretty much
in obscurity now.

Here's one by Saroyan that makes one-word poems seem verbose:





--Aram Saroyan


Hal

McCain / Palin -- Just say thanks but no thanks.
They're a bridge to nowhere.

Halvard Johnson
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On Nov 3, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Bob Grumman wrote:

> Halvard Johnson wrote:
>> The future of one-word poems looks bright to me,
>> compared, say, to the future of poems consisting
>> of exactly 367 words. There's not much of a past
>> there either.
>>
>> Hal
> I guess that's one way of looking at it, Hal.  But I think implicit  
> in the idea of one-word poems is the idea of maximally condensed  
> poems.  I would add that my second thought is that there may well be  
> a lot of new things that can be done with such poems, especially  
> using animation.  Also, like any other form, it will surely go into  
> obscurity for a while, then be re-discovered.
>
>
> --Bob G.
>
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