[lit-ideas] Re: Found Poetry

Please, *please* tell me you know "Holy The Firm".  Otherwise I'll be  forced 
to type out the slim volume, perhaps 75 pp, and break all sorts of  
copyriight laws.  How do you know Dillard?  I though she was my  personal 
guilty 
pleasure -- no one else seems to know she exists, and if they  do, they 
consider her 
stuff child's play.  Still, my favorite of her "found  poems" from Mornings 
Like This to be posted later after I get my children to  school.  Fair warning, 
merely.
 
Julie Krueger
 
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4/25/05 1:55:30 A.M. Central Daylight Time  From: _nantongo@xxxxxxxxxx 
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Blogger Robert Hudson, writing in 2001, provides a  great overview of Found 
Art and reminds me I still have to order Annie  Dillard's 1995 collection of 
found poems, "Mornings Like This".   Article  at:

http://www.workingpoet.com/spout/spout07-01.htm

Excerpt:

"Take,  for instance, these closing stanzas to [Dillard's] poem "Hunter," 
which is  taken verbatim from one of my favorite books of all time, Michail 
Prishvin's  "Nature's Diary" (sometimes titled "Jenseng: Root of Life"):

One lacks  words to describe what the deep forest
Is like at night when you know that  the great birds
Are asleep overhead. I lack words to give
Even a pale  description of all this marshland.

In the mist the artist stole up very  close and took aim.
It was like aiming at the rising moon. The mind
Works  in infinite spaces-yet haphazardly,  spreading."

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Anyone got any found  poems to share? Best  MN




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