I believe the prose poem can be an ideal form of expressing complexity: it exists as a “lump” of being, not spaced into digested piecemeal. While a sentence itself is a linear existence, other sentences function directly lateral to that sentence. I think the prose poem can express simultaneity, as there isn’t the overt sequential […]
Archives for December 2013
When writing of Place, consider various meanings of the term “Location”
December 30, 2013 by
I think writing of place should explore location in as many senses of the word as possible. Geographic location: the urban, the landscape, with the entrance of wildlife and domestic animals if accurate. Location in time: beginnings, endings, in-betweens, and memory’s effect in urging recontextualizing. Location relative to another person: understandings and misperceptions, intimacies and […]
A Brief Statement on the Desire for Risk
December 30, 2013 by
Below is a “bias statement” written in the beginning of the Fall 2013 semester. … Dislikes. I dislike it when a poem does not seem to engage in any risks. That is, when it looks, smells, tastes, feels like what readers expect from typical poem-ness. When it uses phrases that sound like something easily said […]