A Poetics (through 53)

42. Full-Body

I believe in a full-body poetry, a poetry born of the body and rising out of the body in the shape of that body, a poetry of performance, a poetry of the body making the poem real, a poetry that only the poet can make, a poetry in celebration of the poem itself and the body of its creation. A poem must be yelled into a cave with rocks thrown in the water, a poem must be walked through black cave water, a poem must be swum across the water and singing it all the time, a poem must ...