tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11779531.post113141026717260072..comments2023-08-04T04:41:39.813-07:00Comments on Of Looking At A Blackbird: Swimming In ItUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11779531.post-1131511342928633612005-11-08T20:42:00.000-08:002005-11-08T20:42:00.000-08:00First time I've visited your blog. Interesting pos...First time I've visited your blog. Interesting post.<BR/><BR/>I heard poet Etheridge Knight say a couple of times that poetry is spoken song. He also commented once that longer poems need repetition to sustain them. Repetition also helps memory (the old stuff about formulized epithets in Homer, "rosefinger dawn," "gray-eyed Athena," etc.) Repetition can take poetry back closer to its oral beginnings, ultimately full body kinetic beginnings. Deeper into the wellspring.<BR/><BR/>Whitman of course, and Joyce, also Pablo Neruda, his poems (especially in Canto General) full of the kinds of lists found in Whitman and Joyce. Or, for example, in some passages of the Mahabharata.Lyle Daggetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10731915540520704368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11779531.post-1131494937428482322005-11-08T16:08:00.000-08:002005-11-08T16:08:00.000-08:00While we're alluding to music... i think it works ...While we're alluding to music... i think it works to soar like that, to indulge. But then I think it's great to draw back and keep it quiet. Movements, so to speak.<BR/><BR/>Eliot is great at this--though he's probably not cool these days.Diane K. Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03204316534769002428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11779531.post-1131485177198496052005-11-08T13:26:00.000-08:002005-11-08T13:26:00.000-08:00I remember someone saying there are Type A writers...I remember someone saying there are Type A writers who put in too little and Type B writers who put in too much (yes, I'm definitely Type B). I agree about Pattiann Rogers. I think people are overly suspicious, though, of any sense of "finding a groove." Repetition can certainly be tedious, but I think there's a certain kind of "repetition" (that's the wrong word but I don't know what to call it) that <I>allows</I> freedom, like a solid rhythm section that allows a soloist to soar. Hmm, I think I'm repeating myself, but I think the hard part of poetry is that the same words have to be rhythm section and soloist at once.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13471547669854013234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11779531.post-1131481671274613832005-11-08T12:27:00.000-08:002005-11-08T12:27:00.000-08:00Well, there's the maximalist mind and the minimali...Well, there's the maximalist mind and the minimalist mind, writer or reader. I think of certain repetitive writers like Pattianne Rogers whose work sounds good but (for me) gets tedious on the page.<BR/><BR/>I think I'm more of a minimalist, though I like repetition too (at least a minimal amount of it).Beverlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18306598876971505623noreply@blogger.com