[lit-ideas] Re: Found Poetry
- From: John Wager <johnwager@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:07:40 -0500
Is it in "Holy the Firm" that Dillard describes watching a solar eclipse
from the top of a moutain in Washington? It's where she describes
looking DOWN at the eastern plains below her, and seeing the darkness of
half the world rushing at her at about 5,000 miles per hour.
JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
>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
>(mailto:nantongo@xxxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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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