A Poetics (41 Alone, Just Now Restored)
[Karri Kokko noticed that I'd failed to post the 41st entry of my ongoing poetics. It was written months ago (in September), but here it is now for your enjoyment.]
41. Not-Poetry
The limitations of poetry are the limitations of the poet, of the reader of poetry, of the imaginations of both. To insist on defining poetry by what it is not (something to look at without speaking it in a head, a performance of the body, a manipulation of sound divorced from usual semantics) is to imagine a poetry separate from possibility. These possibilities for poetry exist in the word itself, in the interconnections of words in sequences or atomized bursts, in the letter, in the examination of the letter as a visually meaningful substance, in the combination of the word with the image, in the wordless word spoken or sung, in the word performed as words as part of the body in motion, in the word as an aleatoric or interactive digital event.
ecr. l'inf.
41. Not-Poetry
The limitations of poetry are the limitations of the poet, of the reader of poetry, of the imaginations of both. To insist on defining poetry by what it is not (something to look at without speaking it in a head, a performance of the body, a manipulation of sound divorced from usual semantics) is to imagine a poetry separate from possibility. These possibilities for poetry exist in the word itself, in the interconnections of words in sequences or atomized bursts, in the letter, in the examination of the letter as a visually meaningful substance, in the combination of the word with the image, in the wordless word spoken or sung, in the word performed as words as part of the body in motion, in the word as an aleatoric or interactive digital event.
ecr. l'inf.
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