[lit-ideas] Speaking of Poetry
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:33:37 -0500
POETRY IS...
A poem shouldn't mean but be,"
MacLeish unleashed upon the world.
"A poem points to nothing but itself."
Forster's per ipsum, et in ipso, et cum ipso.
A poet's work, said Valery,
"consists less in seeking words for his ideas
than in seeking ideas for his words";
and "a bad poem is one
that vanishes into meaning."
"Like a piece of ice on a hot stove
the poem must ride on its own melting,"
Robert Frost fluidized.
"Poetry is not the record of an event:
it is an event"
eventualized Robert Lowell.
Such a bother.
A poem is like when
you're wishing you were fucking dead
and the weather suddenly changes.
That's all poetry is.
A change in the weather.
Mike Geary
Weather Man of Memphis
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