Responses to New Work Explored...
Let's make this a place for comments on any of the new authors or work we're exploring, whether through your oral presentations or my postings. When you notice something you like or find interesting, please comment here.
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Well, if Spaulding Grey counts, the line "they carried me out in that drunken classic jesus sailor pose" just made my day. I don't know, I like when I find a word or a phrase for something that one sees but never really describes. And I love the way he puts random cultural references together (jesus-sailor, honestly) and they make total sense. More sense than if you just described it.
I'm finding that 2010 has thus far been a year of inspirations and epiphanies to try new things. This includes a couple of writing works. After reading Fukami's bold style of formatting experiments I want to try making formatting changes to older poetry and see if a different message conveys...perhaps?
THEN Jade and Natalie have brought about a style of mind-flow that I've always wanted to try but never quite knew how. So maybe I can attempt a style like that. I want to do some page mind-vomit.
THEN!!! I'm experiencing this great awakening with Swimming to Cambodia because it is mind vomit and story telling with acting skills laced throughout. I love his tangents during his story-telling and some of his visuals (that I've made it through thus far) are hilarious and incredible.
"Shit on the stainless steel counter that represented all my negative energy"
"Evaporated in a state of ecstacy"
"Sorrow, Jesus and Rasputin"
"Huns ate them up like chocolate covered cherries"
sooooo great. So just in case you all wanted to hear my self-therapy about epiphanies with writing.
Another thing I have found rewarding is similar to what Sarahi Hernandez did at Diversity Day (for those who didn't ditch) She did a beat poem that was very well done and I performed open mic at a theater I often perform at and it was a really really rewarding experience. I recommend with such confidence that you read something intense and very close to your heart to an audience. I felt amazing and a guy who was there asked me whose writing I was reading...which made me feel like a celebrity and an underestimated teenager. FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PS- if you want to hear some really epic writing that is both smart, witty and creatively visual, you should check out Michael Basinski. He writes poetry in a art form, like he paints his poetry...this is something I will try for my second workshop- BE AFRAID.
Aurora Meyer
Feb 9, 2010 at 11:52 PM