Glad you enjoyed Leaf Shore & Sky Slaw. Plenty of the latter in the air waves these days, eh? As to how I construct: most of my writing in the past few years is written in (and/or against) various formal devices and structures of my own devising. In the case of these 2 it's a 6-word phrase with words 1 & 6 rhyming, in stanzas of 7 lines. Plus various other technical devices that may or may not be obvious. As to cut-ups or chance systems, I don't use 'em (tho i do occasionally do visual collage poems) even tho the work may appear "cup-up" to some people. They're just written that way, and do undergo revisions, etc. Underlying almost everything I write are narrative structures; stories... I'm writing them in the ur-language, or echo language, that underlies (or overlies or whatever) all language. It took many years of practice to find, or hear, and then write in that language.
Onword, John
At 03:30 PM 10/26/00 -0600, you wrote:
Dear John, How are you constructing your poems? Do you have a set
system? Very interesting.
"John M. Bennett" wrote:
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