| Modern Era |
Postmodern and beyond |
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| New Formalism |
Organic/Projective/Practice of Outside |
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| Grants/awards/book sales (outside validation) |
Joy in Process (anything else, icing) |
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| Extensive revision |
PREvision (& scrupulous attention to the moment) |
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| Short separate poems |
Lifetime perfecting a Serial poem (The Holy Forest, Mu, etc.) |
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| Poet as author |
Poet as gift recipient |
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| Poet brain |
Non-local mind |
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| Theory |
Experience first, theory afterward (Theory as Cosmology) |
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| Determined form/subject/method |
Form as revelation of content |
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| Writer’s block |
Incubation period |
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| Universe as Machine |
Universe as Organism |
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| Concern for accessibility |
Courage in trusting ear’s non-logical leaps |
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| Anthropocentric |
Noospheric |
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| Logical/Linear/Clever/Ironic |
Mythic |
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| Eliot |
Olson |
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| Poet as Embalmer |
Poet as Time Mechanic |
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| Patriarchal, Hierarchical, Separate |
Interconnected |
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| Pursuit of Knowledge |
Pursuit of Negative Capability |
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| Competition/Domination |
Partnership |
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| Art of networking/positioning/self-promotion |
Fully absorbed in refining the gesture, amigos emerge |
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| The universe is made of Things |
Universe is made of Occasions of Experience |
peN – 12.5.08