[New-Poetry] A New Poetics Term, Maybe

[Judy Prince]

Happy Sunday night, Bob.
I spose I could add "eratotype" to my list of 'Bobbisms', but no, it must
stop.  Reason it must stop is that I don't have a clue what you mean by
"eratotype"---as well as it reminds me too much of 'erratic' and 'rat'
[apologies to any rodents].  P'raps you could reach into your very poetic
soul and come up with a poem using most of your 'Bobbisms', such as
'flow-break' or 'informature'.  Or a poem that goes wild with
free-associated bits about 'eratotype'.  Here's me starting you off:
RAT BITES

typical trash, that.
rag tag rat tapping types
trails of wheelie bin tails
topical trickster kicks off
from left brain

ferrets flipping in Birmingham
front garden bunnies flee
guinea pig on a lead looks like
your sister's fuzzy house slipper

mouses crouch behind the couch
sofalicious month-old crisps
flavour [barbe a queue] of the favoured
moles precede well grounded voles
not to mention trolls
capering in caverns

erat-a-tat-tat-O-type

Barry Spacks where R U
we need a banana verse reverse
perhaps perverse stall of Bobbistics
stem stall Indo-European blots roots boots
map your atlas, or somebody's ratless

oy

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Have fun, Bob!

Best,

Judy




2009/2/28 Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>

> 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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