a little food for thought.
2. Indeterminacy has been overdetermined.
3. Nothing is worse than a reasonable poem.
7. In postmodern culture, irony is taken on faith.
8. Style is feeling in search of a sentence.
9. The future is unlived. But it can be experienced.
12. Nothing is less erotic than a paragraph.
13. The future has a long history.
14. The present is always a little behind the times.
18. Lyric poetry rescues pain from the jaws of pleasure.
25. Imagism is objectification in a moment of feeling.
26. Objectivism is imagism in a moment of syntax.
36. Poetry is desire having words with itself.
From "Reality and Its Antecedents: Fifty Statements on Life and Art. By Paul Hoover
Entitlement
In the academy
the suzerainty
of poetics
is predicated
upon the idea
that the natives
won't get it:
examinations
of post colonial
explanations.
But actually I really did like Hoover's "poem" I thought it had some interesting observations. My favourite was number 18, but there is something for everyone. LOL
Good morning, Kay Syrah!!
8. Style is feeling in search of a sentence.
I rather like #8.
I walk a crooked road to find
the correct words to use
to form a poem or a short piece of prose
Sometimes, my efforts lack a certain ring
that leaves my poetry flat
without a rhyme to sing...