Wednesday, April 20, 2011

A Poetry Book Club's Response to Spring and All by William Carlos Williams

In control, out of control. The idea of the thing. The thing itself. Cutting himself off.


What is the experiment. Connection between poetry and prose. Wanting you to connect it to the poetry. Poems and prose working ON you.


Doing nothing. Imagination without emotional connection. Everyday objects. Artist and the farmer. One thing couched in another.


Red Wheelbarrow: shocking "in here." What does depend on it?


What does it mean for poetry to imitate life. Writing a poetry he can't quite write yet. Supreme importance. Nameless spectacle. Moment of cleavage.


Emerson, Nietzstche. Old turning over the new. Romanticism. Something lost. Disorganization principle. Emerson disobedience. Relatedness. Are these the ideas most poets operate.


Personality. Dialectic. In dialogue. Drawing on.


Projects of NOW: v. learning then, pure and puritanism, inclusive, redundancy, completeness. Always now. What is suspense. Dottie Lasky. Marianne Moore.


Excess. Spring... and all!

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