[New-Poetry] A New Poetics Term, Maybe

[Halvard Johnson]

Just do it!

Hal

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>wrote:

> Knowing how tend alwuz to make fun of my poetics terms, I was hesitant to
> float my latest through New-Poetry.  But I need help.  The coinage is
> "Eratotype."  Its meaning is "specific type of poem."  "Erato" because Erato
> is the muse of poetry and I couldn't think of anything else.  "Type," of
> course, because it's a type of something.  The help I need is simply
> feedback.  If anyone knows of a word in use that means what eratotype means,
> terrific.  Or, if anyone can come up with a better term, I'll be glad to use
> it instead.
>
> Sure, "type of poem" would be a reasonable possibility, but it's too
> general: it could mean just love poem.  "Poetic form" would do the trick if
> there weren't so many kinds of poems that don't really have forms.
> The reason I felt a need for the term is that I've been thinking about my
> current "poet's block."  It was different from my normal poet's block, which
> is just not being able to think of anything to write about.  My current
> problem is that I can't think of any "eratotype" to compose.  All the
> eratotypes I can think of seem dead to me.  In particular, I feel I've
> exhausted my own long-division poem eratotype.  I am confident I could make
> good new ones but I wouldn't be doing anything interestingly new in them,
> I'd be repeating myself.
> Anyway, any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> --Bob
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