As far as I see it, a poem has business to exist, really, if there's a reasonable chance that somebody may have his perceptions rearranged by having read it or having used it. The poem is always capable of being a subversive agent, psychologically, sensuously, however you like.
—Roy Fisher, Interviews Through Time and Selected Prose (Shearsman Books, 2000), p. 64.
Showing posts with label rearrange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rearrange. Show all posts
7.27.2022
8.26.2009
reordering the mess
A rearranged bad poem is a bad poem rearranged. (Thinking of some of Ted Berrigan's sonnets.)
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bad poem,
rearrange,
sonnets,
ted berrigan
10.24.2008
impact image
An image that aggressively rearranges the space of human experience.
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experience,
image,
rearrange,
space
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