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| ~M~
Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 31398 Registered: 11-1998 |
. Dearest Membership -- Here is the sixteenth and final in The Poet's Note Card series. These Note Cards come from a book entitled The Mind's Eye: A Guide to Writing Poetry, by Kevin Clark. Mr. Clark is a winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award, is a university professor at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, and a widely published poet. This book on the teaching of poetry writing is concise, practical, and has been designed specifically for a college-level term. It includes a progression of lessons, example poems, and stimulating exercises. While most advanced poets already know these things, it doesn't hurt to review them. Or to learn them if you are a beginner to the craft of poetry making. While you might not agree with every point Mr. Clark makes, I do hope these note cards serve to help those who are new to poetry by providing some basic foundation of information on which to build. Oh, and I do recommend that you acquire the book. It's an excellent textbook, especially if you would like to attend a college-level poetry writing course, but cannot for whatever reason. The link above (click on the book's title) will take you to the WPF BookShop and the Amazon description of the book. Thanks for reading! And I hope you have enjoyed the series. Love, M (Administrator) ------------------------------------------------- The Poet's Note Card -- #16 from The Mind's Eye: A Guide to Writing Poetry by Kevin Clark The Language of Risk 1. Because all human beings harbor strange ideas and habits, what seems odd may actually be the norm. In order to find an original or true voice in their poetry, good poets find ways to mine their own interior eccentricities. 2. No poem should be difficult for the sake of difficulty. But if your vision requires a way of seeing that may initially be foreign to readers, then you should trust in the vision. 3. Associative poems advance by a kind of not-quite-free association. 4. In the first half of the twentieth century, it was often said that a writer must learn all the traditional forms of poetry before experimenting with free verse. Now we know it’s usually best to practice referential, image-based writing before attempting more experimental forms. 5. Some contemporary poems break the rules of grammar or logic or normal sense – yet they seem to function as viscerally effective by virtue of the surprises they give the reader. 6. Enigma poems consistently upset conventional referentiality. First you understand what’s being said, and then you don’t. But the enigmatic passage usually sounds as if it ought to mean something. Enigma poetry helps to suggest the metaphysical uncertainties of contemporary life. The Poet's Note Card -- #1 The Poet's Note Card -- #2 The Poet’s Note Card -- #3 The Poet’s Note Card -- #4 The Poet’s Note Card -- #5 The Poet’s Note Card -- #6 The Poet’s Note Card -- #7 The Poet’s Note Card -- #8 The Poet’s Note Card -- #9 The Poet’s Note Card -- #10 The Poet’s Note Card-- #11 The Poet’s Note Card -- #12 The Poet’s Note Card -- #13 The Poet’s Note Card -- #14 The Poet’s Note Card -- #15 . | ||
| Ann Metlay
Senior Member Username: wordsrworthy Post Number: 5446 Registered: 08-2007 |
Thank you so much for posting these, M, I have learned a great deal from each of them. Ann | ||
| Frank
Advanced Member Username: frank_faust Post Number: 712 Registered: 10-2002 |
I've enjoyed these very much M, Thank you Cheers, Frank | ||
| Rania S. Watts
Advanced Member Username: cementcoveredcherries Post Number: 1949 Registered: 04-2008 |
Hi M, That just sucks! Thank you so much for taking the time to post them all. You know, how much I relished this series. Cheers, Ran "I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." ~ Oscar Wilde "You will hardly know who I am or what I mean" ~ Walt Whitman Cement Covered Cherry | ||
| Will Eastland
Intermediate Member Username: dwillo Post Number: 621 Registered: 07-2006 |
These are going in the library forum, right?? Thanks again, Will I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. ~Ashleigh Brilliant | ||
| ~M~
Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 31464 Registered: 11-1998 |
Yes, Will. Numbers 1-8 are already there, under "Poetry: General Topics" in the folder at the top entitled "The Poet's Note Card Series": NATUROPATHY The rest will be moved there when we archive important things from ESSENTIAL OILS. Love, M |
