Here is “Wood”, a kind of poem:
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This from Ernie Lapore and Matthew Stone at the NYT Opinionator blog, "Philosophy and the Poetic Imagination" [2.12.2012]: In short, a poem — and artistic language more generally — is open to whatever we find in it. Whenever we notice that an unexpected formal feature amplifies our experience of a…
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Found Auburnun, by Geoffrey Hill
Inspired, or egged on perhaps, by my own recent discussion of found poetry in the satirical, parodic, or derivative mode, I've put together a new poem by Geoffrey Hill. Source below, plus the rules of composition, but let the poetry speak: Auburnun fiede at acesaga ubur in ex lecta…
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Muti-lation at the end of the line
In Broken Hierarchies: Precursor to a Variorum? I noticed major revisions to a poem in Geoffrey Hill's Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012, which I argued amounted to a totally altered poem following a new and different philosophical development. Because the revisions in BH are widespread and significant, I suggested that critics writing…
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[…] in the “kind of poem” series [see here and here], this one based on false positives that turned up in my list of invented combinations […]
[…] in the “A kind of poem” series [previous: here, here, and here], I give you is “Morsels”, a kind of […]