[New-Poetry] Aphorisms

[TheOldMole]

You might check out J. V. Cunningham.

James Cervantes wrote:
> Skip Fox's "Sure Shots" in _For  To_.
>
> - Jim
>
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Anny Ballardini 
> <anny.ballardini at gmail.com <mailto:anny.ballardini at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     James Finnegan's Ursprache:
>     http://ursprache.blogspot.com/
>
>
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>     On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Jeff Newberry
>     <jeff.newberry at gmail.com <mailto:jeff.newberry at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi all,
>
>         I don't even know if I'm using the right terminology here, but
>         I thought I'd throw out some thoughts I've been having on
>         aphorisms and poetic form. 
>
>         I've been reading Jim Harrison's and Ted Kooser's /Braided
>         Creek/, a kind of conversation in poetry the two had via
>         letters, I think.  Nonetheless, the book is a series of very
>         short (2-5 line usually) aphorisms.  I love the quiet
>         simplicity of the poems, the way they attempt to read the
>         world via images.  Reading /Braided Creek/, I thought
>         immediately of Antonio Machado (I have the Trueblood
>         translation).  In that volume are several sequences of
>         proverbs/aphorisims.  I love Machado's aphorisms:  he sees
>         mystery everywhere he looks.  His suspicion of rationalistic
>         reduction is, I think, undercut by the sheer delight he takes
>         in the natural world.  Still, I'm more interested in the form
>         of the poems than I am in Machado's subjects (or Harrison's
>         and Kooser's, for that matter).
>
>         Thinking about the aphorisim as a form, I reread some of
>         Pound's writing on Chinese ideograms, but Pound only takes me
>         so far--given that he's extrapolating from Fellenosa's
>         notebook (I think), I'm not even sure how far I can go with
>         Pound, or how far he can take me, or even how much of his
>         reading of haiku is informed by his own quest to "make it
>         new," so to speak. 
>
>         I'm wondering if you all have any thoughts on the aphorism as
>         a form--how it ticks, what it does, that kind of stuff.  If
>         you have any suggestions for critical reading, I'd appreciate
>         that, as well.
>
>
>         Best,
>         Jeff Newberry
>         -- 
>         Blog:  http://museoffireblog.blogspot.com
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